<div dir="ltr">This leaves my original question/ How does on burn stuff and leave it open to add more stuff later?<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 10:39 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Thanks for bringing up EMP. It has been in the back of my mind, however <br>
I need to give it more attention. I need to burn a few DVDs.....<br>
<br>
While we are at it it might be worth having more than two cans of soup <br>
in our pantry... buy want you eat and the worse case scenario is you <br>
will eat what you bought.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 2022-08-31 07:26, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
> On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 23:08 -0700, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
>> What your talking about is a multisession CD.<br>
>> <br>
>> The amount of data a CD (700MB) or even a DVD (4.7GB) holds is<br>
>> practically nothing by today's standards, plus a blank CD or DVD is <br>
>> only<br>
>> about 20 cents. So it's not worth losing data because you tried to <br>
>> get<br>
>> fancy and save a couple of cents with your storage. Just burn whole<br>
>> disks at once and then check them before you delete the originals.<br>
> <br>
> Yeah, if backups can be fit on a DVD, that's the way to go. Keep them <br>
> in a dark<br>
> place and they'll last decades, or at least mine have.<br>
> <br>
>> I'm fairly sure that files are an SSD are relatively immune to EM<br>
>> stuff. <br>
> <br>
> I doubt that. An SSD is made of transistors, and transistor junctions <br>
> break with<br>
> EMP.<br>
> <br>
>> If something happens big enough to wipe a drive that's just<br>
>> sitting in storage, you'll likely not care about computers anymore<br>
>> because you'll be fighting people for food and water.<br>
> <br>
> You're absolutely right. That being said, there are some kinds of EMP<br>
> events that<br>
> could be gotten over in a decade or two. For that reason, I keep a<br>
> couple radios, a<br>
> couple backup USB spinning rust drives, and some LED flashlights in a<br>
> steel garbage<br>
> can. Sure, with strong EMP my stuff would get fried right through the<br>
> can, but my<br>
> stuff might survive weaker EMP, such as somebody busting a nuke over<br>
> South Dakota (I<br>
> live in Florida).<br>
> <br>
> As far as food and water, that's why we stash canned food and lots of<br>
> water, along<br>
> with ammo. And please don't make assumptions about which side of the <br>
> political<br>
> spectrum I'm on, from the preceding sentence.<br>
> <br>
> SteveT<br>
> <br>
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