SSD for long term (2-4 years) storage ?

datanxieteB to Data Hoarder@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 1 year ago

I plan to put some 1TB SSDs into long term (2-4 years) storage. I was told that the memory in SSDs lose charge over time so this might result in me returning to completely lost data

Is there a “safe” time period where I can assume the SSDs still have the data on them?
Do I need to read the whole 1TB worth of data off each SSD or would plugging them in every time period above be enough to have the data be reliably stored on them?

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