Benefits of Hama flash storage
 | This page in a nutshell: The poor data retention span of Hama flash storage devices and the inability to recharge their NAND transistors upon power supply has benefits for testing purposes. |
 | Hama flash storage should not be relied upon beyond very short-term storage. |
Hama is a vendor of various electronics accessory products.
While non-flash-storage products of Hama are not necessarily of low quality, flash storage by Hama evidently is.
As described here, data retention on Hama flash storage is very poor, meaning any data stored on Hama flash storage could become corrupted from bit fading within months of storage (after writing), regardless of power supply, meaning Hama flash storage does not recharge their NAND transistors to refresh (extend) the data retention span.
However, this poor reliability has side benefits.
Testing purposes
Flash storage by Hama can be used to test the resilience of file systems and formats, and the behaviour of software in case of data corruption.
Media playback and decoding software can be tested to improve its ability to handle damaged data.
Sensitive data
Automatic self-destruction
Sensitive short-term data can be stored on Hama flash storage due to its automatic destruction by bit fading.
These are only logical (non-physical) errors, still allowing writing new data.
In this sense, Hama flash storage acts as quicksand for data, metaphorically.
Emergency destruction
Hama flash storage can easily be rendered unusable by connecting it to an unstable voltage source such as the USB port of a 2008 Grundig RRCD-3720 boom box, allowing the destruction of all data on it within seconds.[1]
