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It's actually insane what technology we have in this era
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I think it is astounding too. On the other hand, imagine how much history will be lost if we had another Carrington Event. There are ways to preserve huge amounts digital media that would survive such a thing, but I don't think there's been any serious attempts to preserve important stuff that's only on the internet.
So it does astound me, but it also worries me.
Solar flares don’t erase HDDs. EMP could ruin the control circuitry but not the HDD disk itself. If someone could rebuild the controller all the data on the disk would be recoverable. Solar flares are not like nuclear bomb EMP and most electronics would be fine in a Carrington event. The electric grid, with its long wires, would have a hell of a time.