Flash Drives and retention

[sandorski]

How are they for retaining Data, Time Wise? Weeks? Months?

 

[shabby]

Years...

 

[sandorski]

Sweet, thanks.

 

[jimhsu]

Conventional standards are 2-3 years minimum under extreme temperature conditions. Expected lifetime of data in actuality is something like a decade.

 

[sandorski]

Conventional standards are 2-3 years minimum under extreme temperature conditions. Expected lifetime of data in actuality is something like a decade.

Wow, that's quite impressive. I just need it for a week or 2 max, so it seems I have no worries.

 

[sxr7171]

Quite far from the eons I expected the question was about.