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Re:Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012 (2014) by tbrownaw on Sunday April 09, 2017 @06:52PM (#14074758)
would such a storm wipe my HDDs that hold all my private data?

No.

If they're plugged in to the wall, they might get fried into a powdery crisp.

But they wouldn't get merely erased, and if they're not connected to a wall socket they'll be completely fine.

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