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EToS on Jan 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered...

reading articles like this where SD cards have survived being boiled, trampled, washed and dunked in coffee or cola, makes me think its not impossible for certain SD cards stored in the right conditions to last possibly centuries

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3939333.stm

DanBC on Jan 17, 2015 [–]

It's great they're so robust.

That article is a bit irresonsible and might lead people to think they don't need a back up or an archive store.

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