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SanDisk WORM SD Card Can Store Data For 100 Years

Posted by timothy on from the warranted-for-lifetime-of-original-purchaser dept.

CWmike writes "SanDisk has announced a 1GB Secure Digital card that can store data for 100 years, but can be written on only once. The WORM (write once, read many) card is 'tamper-proof' and data cannot be altered or deleted, SanDisk said in a statement. The card is designed for long-time preservation of crucial data like legal documents, medical files and forensic evidence, SanDisk said. SanDisk determined the media's 100-year data-retention lifespan based on internal tests conducted at normal room temperatures. The company said it is shipping the media in volume to the Japanese police force to archive images as an alternative to film. The company is working with a number of consumer electronics companies, including camera vendors, to support the media."

4 of 267 comments (clear)

  1. Wow... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, I submitted that like a week ago.

  2. The Egyptians did it first by rolando2424 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Paper (at least according to Wikipedia

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    Okay seriously I've just run out of pointless things to say.
  3. 1GB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    only 1GB? You aren't very serious about children.

  4. Re:tamper proof by Priyanka1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dr. Eli Harari, an Israeli engineer, began making early contributions to EEPROM - electrically erasable programmable read-only memory, a precursor to flash memory. Harari worked on flash memory at Intel, leaving to found a start-up which failed. In 1988, Harari launched the company that would become SanDisk with former Intel colleague Sanjay Mehrotra and former Hughes Electronics colleague Jack Yuan. seo services