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"Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code" OK, It's going to turn into one of those urban myths that unsuspecting journalists or well-meaning facebook friends post from time to time, but behind the PR there is a serious note or warning. [ The Story , The Truth ]

SSD's are slowly but surely replacing their mechanical counterparts, the HDD, in modern computers, they offer more storage per square-inch and can read/write data to and from memory significantly faster than the spindle and articulator arm of a standard HDD, and of course, they are not prone to shock and data head crashes. So all good? well, yes... but.... SSD's are essentially a block of electrical gates used to represent the binary of your data, and those electrical gates can loose their charge if they are not regularly refreshed. this process is speeded up the warmer the drive is, so if you copy your backup onto a SSD then store it away in a cupboard, it could be that in 3 months time when you come to recover a file from the drive, that there's been sufficient loss of charge that the data is irrecoverable.