The team has also discovered that the craft is now unable to fully recharge its batteries, causing it to lose its memory each night when it shuts down.
In 1999 former Micron executive Tyler Lowry formed a joint venture with ECD called Ovonyx to make memory that, like flash, doesn't lose data when it loses power.
Support for "persistent memory, " which means that you won't lose all your data when your battery dies (a feature the Treo 650 and several other Palms already have).
Regarding the longevity of storage media many of the products that we use today, hard disk drives, flash memory, optical discs and magnetic tape will react with the ambient environment and gradually lose the data stored on them or disintegrate over time.