I once speculated to a friend about 15 years ago that eventually solid state storage space would be so fast that it could serve as active memory. I can't wait to tell him.

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[–] 54 points 3 years ago (5 children)

I would appreciate confirmation that chip manufacturers understand humans do not typically require this

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    When I die and my laptop gets put into a box and shoved in a dusty corner forgotten for generations I want my descendant to be able to open it in the year 3000 and see all the tabs I had open when I died.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Such retention times are often probabilistic (ie. some percentage of bits have retained their proper value) and an "up to" value, which is negatively influenced by such things as the storage temperature and background radiation.

    In practice, it might be that the only useful retention time is only a small digit number of years.

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