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05 Aug 2013, 5:08 pm

zer0netgain wrote:
True, but many thinkers are worried about the pitfalls of a "digital age." Technology that can't withstand a wide variety of natural and man-made disasters is really of limited use. Imagine how much knowledge and data will be forever lost because it was never stored in a durable medium.

A computer otherwise not affected by an EMP will still work once you get the power back on, but if the data storage unit get corrupted, you won't be able to recover the contents.


Store critical data on SSD or HDD and place it within a Faraday cage storage container.
I know businesses that place ext.storage media in F. cage on a daily basis when then do their nightly data dump.
EMP safe



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11 Aug 2013, 9:30 am

I know that flash memory can lose it's memory if it isn't powered up, but the loss isn't instantaneous like RAM memory loss. Hard Drives can keep there memory for years if they aren't powered up.


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