No, but it’s pretty common for people to spin up drives that are 10 to 20 years old and successfully remove all of the contents. SSD’s ate generally not going to be able to do that even under ideal circumstances.
Yes, but hardly because they planned on it. Don’t use unpowered drives to store things! A safe bet is still a bet, data storage should not be a gamble.
Obviously. I’m not actually recommending tape drives or optical, but rather that you simply do not leave your drives unpowered for 5+ years straight.
You shouldn’t but people do, in which case HDD is the safer bet. And most will spin up tbh. Just make sure to transfer off them immediately lol
It’s not necessarily the spin up that’s the problem, but the fact that a magnetised bit doesn’t last forever.
No, but it’s pretty common for people to spin up drives that are 10 to 20 years old and successfully remove all of the contents. SSD’s ate generally not going to be able to do that even under ideal circumstances.
Yes, but hardly because they planned on it. Don’t use unpowered drives to store things! A safe bet is still a bet, data storage should not be a gamble.