You're in Florida? Me too. Let's get together for a beer!

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 10:26 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> 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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