Timeline for Would a frozen Earth "brick" abandoned datacenters?
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| Dec 20, 2020 at 0:48 | comment | added | Mazura | "Non-operating temperatures for SSDs range from -45C to 85C." – Reddit. If 45C below doesn't void the warranty, it can probably take a little more than that. It depends on how frozen we're talking about, how quickly and evenly, and the ambient conditions. | |
| Dec 20, 2020 at 0:37 | comment | added | Mazura | "Shortcomings of cold storage: However, there is a big flaw in any cold storage medium: there's no integrity checking" – What medium should be used for long term, high volume, data storage (archival)? "There's currently no fail-proof and scientifically proven way to guarantee 30+ years of cold data archival." | |
| Dec 19, 2020 at 1:25 | comment | added | Coffeeholic | Github Archive Program has to be mentioned here as a sidenote. Data stored in ice on hardened film to be preserved for 1,000 years. archiveprogram.github.com | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 22:01 | answer | added | fraxinus | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 8:28 | answer | added | Steve Neithardt | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 20:27 | answer | added | camelccc | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 18:35 | comment | added | rumtscho | Indeed, if you allow access to printed books on the needed standards, it becomes much more doable. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 18:33 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | @rumtscho maybe so but just as Turing decoded Enigma, an advanced civilization with a lot of free time and access to printed books from our era might figure out things such as NTFS and TCP. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 18:30 | history | edited | elemtilas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarification.
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| Dec 17, 2020 at 18:26 | comment | added | rumtscho | Our current technology is absolutely unsuited for independent recovery. I realize that both the question and the answers are geared towards recovering the bits which make up the data - but when you have the bits, you are nowhere near in decoding what they are saying! You will encounter the already mentioned "encryption problem" on every step of the way, in layers upon layers of random engineering decisions. Our hardware can only read our data because it implements a stack of convoluted protocols unknown to any other civilization. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 17:36 | answer | added | Anderas | timeline score: 22 | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 17:24 | comment | added | void_ptr | Few millennia is hugely problematic even before we get to the Earth freezing. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 17:10 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | Big chunks of data will be encrypted and they won't know the algorithm, and even if they find the algorithm, if there's very much bit rot in the keys, they're screwed. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 15:25 | vote | accept | The Square-Cube Law | ||
| Dec 17, 2020 at 13:42 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | @jdunlop well eventually the atmosphere will liquefy, so... | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 13:13 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 17, 2020 at 13:11 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | @void_ptr some millennia. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 6:08 | answer | added | PcMan | timeline score: 44 | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 5:37 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 5:04 | comment | added | jdunlop | How cold are we talking? Once the atmosphere liquefies, that would probably cause problems. Quite aside from most data storage not being rated for vacuum, the lack of atmosphere would expose a lot of unhardened hardware to cosmic radiation. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 5:00 | comment | added | void_ptr | What sort of timespan are we talking about here? | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 4:35 | history | asked | The Square-Cube Law | CC BY-SA 4.0 |