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Originally Posted by khorboth
On another end of the media spectrum is flash drives. Those suckers are remarkably resilient. Water, mud, trees, etc. prove no problem. Age doesn't bother them much at all; being solid state, they don't particularly degrade over time.
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Lots of solid state things gradually decay over time (for things like this, mostly due to thermal motion of the magnetic material), though I haven't been able to find solid numbers for flash memory. I would tend to bet on no more than decades (archival grade optical disks are good for a millennium or more).