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[โ€“] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Older lithography holds charge longer; the pursuit of more storage at cheaper prices results in engineering sacrifices to make it happen.

Older devices also stored fewer bits per well. It's much easier for the data to get corrupted when the difference in voltage between two values is smaller.