Like I’d imagine there’s gonna be a lot of rain over time if I want this time capsule to last like idk 10 years? 30 years?

Is there like a box so tough its indestructible?

Can animals dig it up if I bury it?

How deep do it bury it?

Is the earth’s magnetism gonna affect the hard drive? (Or is there a better medium?)

Like I want this to be like very low budget, I don’t have millions to build an actual timecapsule like some organizations have done. Is there some cheap box that’s waterproof to protect a hard drive from damage for like 30 years buried in the ground?

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      SSD would be 100% dead unless you buried it with a power source.

      Huh? Why? Should SSDs not be able to contain data without power?

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        That’s one of the downsides of SSDs, you lose data really fast without power. Like, after a year, your data will almost sure not be intact.

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        Flash memory stores data as a voltage level, with different values being a tiny distance apart. The voltage slowly leaks out of the cells and has to be periodically topped off.

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        No, they’ll start to corrupt within a year or two. They need to be powered to retain data.

        After 30 years you can forget it.

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        There was a recent paper on this. The failure rate was higher than expected. You’ll have to search for it; I didn’t save a link.

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          Leave a USB drive in a drawer for a couple of years and you can prove this one at home.

          That’s why my backup drive is an old spinny hard drive.