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Focusing on the things I can control I keep a Blu-ray disc backup collection of my most important family media etc. Other than that a nice bunker with canned f

Focusing on the things I can control I keep a Blu-ray disc backup collection of my most important family media etc. Other than that a nice bunker with canned food would be nice but that's approaching tinfoil hat territory.

palad1n 3y ago
Would solid state drives be affected?
- NovaDudely 3y ago
  Not likely, too small to be impacted from such a charge. In general, Solid state drives as long term storage is probably OK on the time frame of a single decade but they degrade with time. Some of the more dense ones even show noticeable degradation in less than a year as the error correction slows transfer speeds. I have had some USB sticks that have held information from 2006 but it hard to tell what state they were in.
NovaDudely 3y ago
One key point that a lot of long term preppers make is that prepping with a LITTLE extra canned food is never a bad idea. Having the pantry stocked for a month, not a week. It isn't about the survivalist fantasy of society crumbling into pieces over night, it is the idea of being prepared for those outlier systemic failures. A power failure for a few days, a flood, short term shipping delays etc. As an aside, one thing they like to stress the most is, the single best thing you can do to be prepped is to be in as good of health as you can manage. If something goes down and you drop dead from a stress induced heart attack, all the other stuff is pointless.
- andyjohnson0 3y ago
  > one thing they like to stress the most is, the single best thing you can do to be prepped is to be in as good of health as you can manage And be on good terms with your neighbours. I'm no prepper/survivalist, but groups are more resilient than individuals in most circumstances.
  - damascus 3y ago
    But don't tell them how much food or other preparations you have in detail. If you have to go a month without the ability to get new food you don't want the entire neighborhood at your door. Better to generally recommend how much food they should have and encourage them to get it themselves.
    - andyjohnson0 3y ago
      Depends. When the chain-gang slaves drag the local warlord's battle-bus into your neighbourhood to confiscate everyone's food, can you fight-off his soldiers on your own?
- rgrieselhuber 3y ago
  Study distributed systems for 5 minutes and redundancy becomes obvious. But apply it to personal areas of responsibility and you’re a nutcase.

palad1n 3y ago

Would solid state drives be affected?

NovaDudely 3y ago
Not likely, too small to be impacted from such a charge. In general, Solid state drives as long term storage is probably OK on the time frame of a single decade but they degrade with time. Some of the more dense ones even show noticeable degradation in less than a year as the error correction slows transfer speeds. I have had some USB sticks that have held information from 2006 but it hard to tell what state they were in.

NovaDudely 3y ago

One key point that a lot of long term preppers make is that prepping with a LITTLE extra canned food is never a bad idea. Having the pantry stocked for a month, not a week. It isn't about the survivalist fantasy of society crumbling into pieces over night, it is the idea of being prepared for those outlier systemic failures. A power failure for a few days, a flood, short term shipping delays etc. As an aside, one thing they like to stress the most is, the single best thing you can do to be prepped is to be in as good of health as you can manage. If something goes down and you drop dead from a stress induced heart attack, all the other stuff is pointless.

andyjohnson0 3y ago
> one thing they like to stress the most is, the single best thing you can do to be prepped is to be in as good of health as you can manage And be on good terms with your neighbours. I'm no prepper/survivalist, but groups are more resilient than individuals in most circumstances.
- damascus 3y ago
  But don't tell them how much food or other preparations you have in detail. If you have to go a month without the ability to get new food you don't want the entire neighborhood at your door. Better to generally recommend how much food they should have and encourage them to get it themselves.
  - andyjohnson0 3y ago
    Depends. When the chain-gang slaves drag the local warlord's battle-bus into your neighbourhood to confiscate everyone's food, can you fight-off his soldiers on your own?
rgrieselhuber 3y ago
Study distributed systems for 5 minutes and redundancy becomes obvious. But apply it to personal areas of responsibility and you’re a nutcase.