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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

I would be surprised if you couldn't get 8KB for 200 years out of standard flash simply by extreme duplication


8GB/8KB means a million copies on one (very small by today's standards!) drive.

Or is the failure mechanism something other than bitrot?