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Re:Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to ... by allovernow on Friday February 28, 2020 @08:18PM (#22447973)
Can't be zero. At the very least if bits can be randomly flipped during storage from wayward radiation, they can be flipped on copy. Error correction only works if the number of flipped bits are below a threshold. But I don't know the order of magnitude of the error rate, I assume it's quite small given that computers work.
Re:Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to ... by Spooky23 on Friday February 28, 2020 @10:53PM (#22448690)
It can be very close. You can get durability of data equal or greater than something like Amazon S3.

I’d be more worried about disasters and budget cuts than cosmic radiation.