This leaves my original question/ How does on burn stuff and leave it open
to add more stuff later?

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 10:39 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> 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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