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[–] 7 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

Multiple disks with many moving parts, containing 80TB of data on magnetic platters flying at high altitude where they'll be subjected to far more physical impacts, radiation, and cosmic rays than at sea level.

Yeah, it's a risk.

Here's a really amazing Radiolab episode about bit flips!

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    You kids think HDDs just failed daily or something. I flew all over the place with a laptop with an HDD for years, as did many others. It'll be fine. Especially since it's unlikely they would be using the drives while traveling.

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