Reply to post: Re: He filled hard disks

So you've 'seen' the black hole. Now for the interesting bit – how all that raw data was stored

Tom 7

Re: He filled hard disks

On the TV program I saw on the evening of the release they said that it was incredibly difficult to back up the drives. If you consider that a drive may fail on downloading the data then its as likely to fail when making a backup so that gets you nowhere* and costs a shitload more**.

*unless you have an MBA in the loop who (by definition) doesnt understand the process.

** and the backup disk money would have been spent on the MBA anyway.

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