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A comment on Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020. Parent comment

Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020 by bch on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:42PM (#25918828)
> Tape is not sensitive to shock and you can just chuck the tapes in your car

Apocryphal story from university - somebody did this and reckons electro-magnetic leakage from their heated seats wrecked their info

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020 by klodolph on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @02:21PM (#25920004)
Modern media is much more resistant to this kind of stuff.
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