SSDs do not lose data without electricity. This has been debunked as far back as 2015. That said, reasonable safe storage conditions (temperature, moisture, etc.) should be a no brainer. Don't shove them in a box in an outdoor storage building for years and expect good outcomes.
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Right, but that chart is OLD and talks nothing of modern processes. SLC, MLC are much less susceptible to loss of data because of only 2 or 4 voltage charge states per cell. Looking at QLC especially with 16 different voltage states per cell, just a small voltage loss would mean data corruption.
This is likely more concerning for well worn SSD's however, and not for a reasonably fresh one.
That article is confusing. They claim you don't need to worry, then they drop a sentence like this.
Even a worn-out SSD would still go a year without data loss, according to the original presentation, and that’s while being stored at 87 degrees Fahreneit the entire time
So which is it? If I have a SSD in a drawer I sure hope it will last more than 1 year.
If you have money for an SSD system, then why not? Also, there is no "no need to modify me for an eternity system" as such. Backups and periodic verification is a must if you want to keep your data. No matter HDDs or SSDs. Also, RAID 1 with 4 SSDs? That's only 1 SSD usable capacity. Unless you mean RAIDZ1.
For light workloads SSDs are more reliable and long-living than HDDs. They have no moving parts.