From: Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject: Re: My First HDD Failure (I Think)
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On 24 Nov 2024 13:32:37 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> 
> 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.
>

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.  


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