The hard drive in that basement PC will keep your photos safe for years. Whereas SSD's can fade. A bit in an SSD is just some charge injected onto a capacitor in the final analysis, and over time it can leak, there is no such thing as a perfect insulator. Flash is not fuse PROM. Magnetic disk is still the best thing available, apart from tape.
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