• Drusenija@lemmy.world
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    “Check it out, I’ve got terabytes on this small sheet of glass!”

    proceeds to drop the glass

    “Well… shit.”

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        I mean a solid state drive is probably going to have a better chance of surviving a drop than one made of glass. A platter drive, yeah, fair.

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        proceeds to drop the off site data center

        “Well… shit. There goes my 3-2-1 backup strategy.”

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        The metal platters, if not literally sliced with a chainsaw or drilled down, can be removed and read for data access, the glass cannot.