Thanks for bringing up EMP. It has been in the back of my mind, however
I need to give it more attention. I need to burn a few DVDs.....
While we are at it it might be worth having more than two cans of soup
in our pantry... buy want you eat and the worse case scenario is you
will eat what you bought.
On 2022-08-31 07:26, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 23:08 -0700, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
What your talking about is a multisession CD.
The amount of data a CD (700MB) or even a DVD (4.7GB) holds is
practically nothing by today's standards, plus a blank CD or DVD is
only
about 20 cents. So it's not worth losing data because you tried to
get
fancy and save a couple of cents with your storage. Just burn whole
disks at once and then check them before you delete the originals.
Yeah, if backups can be fit on a DVD, that's the way to go. Keep them
in a dark
place and they'll last decades, or at least mine have.
I'm fairly sure that files are an SSD are relatively immune to EM
stuff.
I doubt that. An SSD is made of transistors, and transistor junctions
break with
EMP.
If something happens big enough to wipe a drive that's just
sitting in storage, you'll likely not care about computers anymore
because you'll be fighting people for food and water.
You're absolutely right. That being said, there are some kinds of EMP
events that
could be gotten over in a decade or two. For that reason, I keep a
couple radios, a
couple backup USB spinning rust drives, and some LED flashlights in a
steel garbage
can. Sure, with strong EMP my stuff would get fried right through the
can, but my
stuff might survive weaker EMP, such as somebody busting a nuke over
South Dakota (I
live in Florida).
As far as food and water, that's why we stash canned food and lots of
water, along
with ammo. And please don't make assumptions about which side of the
political
spectrum I'm on, from the preceding sentence.
SteveT
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