Re: My First HDD Failure (I Think)

On 11/24/24 8:08 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

On 24 Nov 2024 13:32:37 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
 

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And in two different places I hope (in fact, I don't care, it's a way of
speaking). Because if you have a fire or a theft or whatever at home,
your backups need to be far away to be useful. A backup needs to be done
not only for a hard drive crash, but for everything bad that can
happens. So, your backup needs to be somewhere far away from your
original data.
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 There are fires.  There are tornadoes.  But most importantly there are
cosmic rays.
 Cosmic rays can easily cause bit flips in both HDD and SSD, but SSD
is more susceptible.
 Therefore, the best place to store backups would be abandoned underground
mines, at least 2 miles deep.
 

Hmm.. I had not thought of the cosmic rays. Then hardcopies beat them all :) It is just somewhat larger. S J Gould's library in his house was huge but he handled it by using those rolling vertical ladders. The shelves were all the way to the high ceiling.
Same for music sheets.
Darius had the stuff carved into stone high up on vertical mountain walls inside niches just deep enough to stay safe from elements, but not high enough to get missed by people on the ground. Even today one can carefully climb and read them, if you know cuneiform alphabet and one of the old Persian, Sumerian, Kaldean, and Elamite languages. He made sure they were written in various languages so any people of importance in his realm could read them.
What a man.
No there's no "Greek" text there, although Greece was part of Darius's realm. Greeks were at the time mostly homosexuals fucking each other while making sure children of male sex grow up to become homosexuals. They served well for people upon whom cro-magnons later based their culture. I like it that today how you shy away from calling homosexuals "Greek". When I came to this country, the word "Greek" still meant homosexual.
But other mortals of Darius's time wrote everything on clay tablets, then heated them ("baked" them). The alphabet was cuneiform. Tens of thousands of those tablets have made it to this day intact. Most were stolen by Brits from Iran, and some by the Americans. A large number of them were returned to Iran a couple of months back as Pezeshkiyan wrapped up his UN visit and took them back.
The tech today can't even beat clay tablets in storage. "Cosmic Rays" can't do shit to them :) It only takes cro-magnon thieves to affect their fates.