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What if we special built a space vehicle to hold as many MicroSD-style flash memory chips as we could and blast it off at Voyager speeds?

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Nope.... SSDs aren't going to retain data for decades, especially with all of the radiation spewing around outside the protection of mother Earth.

The gold record will last way, way longer, as it's low density data, thus fairly redundant, and you could work around any micrometeorite holes.

You're right, I didn't think of the radiation flipping bits\melting stuff, but we could shield it. And to be fair we're talking about going for the bandwidth world (uhh... universe) record, not the data-longevity record. Just make it last as far as Mars or something.

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