Let’s say civilization collapsed and I still want to run all of my archived games and programs that are on HDD and tapes at good speeds for the foreseeable future. If I get myself a supply of SSD’s and store them in ideal conditions with no data, no power, and stored them in a lead lined container (for pesky cosmic and terrestrial radiation) how long before the components inside the SSD’s would degrade and become unusable. If anyone has any literature that discusses in detail the mechanisms and physics of different SSD’s that would be appreciated also!
Maybe you should be asking if the SATA technology will be around 10+ years from now. Lots of machines are leaning on NVMe over SSD. As with anything on a server, PC, or Laptop tech changes all the time. Like you wouldn’t be able to use a PC case from the early 2000s today as the connectors aren’t the same as they are on a modern PC.
You may want to look at saving just more than the SSDs on the shelf, you want to ensure that you have a Motherboard that can support those drives.