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nicholasjarnold
on Jan 30, 2014
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Facebook's new optical storage solution [video]
Another benefit of this system is that the storage media is immune electromagnetic pulse. So, even in the case of a large-scale EMP event our cat pictures and network graphs will remain intact and recoverable. :)
jpalawaga
on Jan 30, 2014
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True, but it's easy to build a storage container that doubles as a faraday cage when the tapes are in long-term storage.
Actually, I'd be very surprised if this wasn't the case (pun intended).
tlrobinson
on Jan 30, 2014
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I assume SSDs are screwed by EMPs, but how does magnetic media fare (the tape/disk media itself, not reader/writer electronics)?
ricardobeat
on Jan 30, 2014
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Wiped.
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