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		wtallis on March 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New hard drive rituals (2018) I think it was worse with TLC right before the transition to 3D NAND. They were down to about 8 electrons between voltage states. 3D NAND memory cells are physically much larger than 15nm planar NAND, and most are a lot less leaky.

kabdib on March 26, 2020 [–]

EIGHT electrons?

Indistinguishable from magic, man.

[Cue future archeologists: "Remember when our grandparents could only get a few gigabytes on a quark? How primitive, how sooo last-femtocentury."]

davidcuddeback on March 27, 2020 | [–]

> last-femtocentury

You nerd-sniped me. I couldn't resist calculating it. A femtocentury is about 3.16 microseconds.

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