• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Ok… Data redundancy is a possible application… I will tentatively say that’s a feasible goal, if still probably a stupid one.

    I mean, how often do data centers upgrade storage drives? Cause the cost of doing that in space is… unreasonable.

    • Semperverus@lemmy.world
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      47 minutes ago

      It would depend on how critical the data is and if the cost benefit analysis breaks even or tips in favor of the moon. I would imagine housing state secrets up there would be reasonable, and documents (text files) don’t take up a huge amount of space. Video would be more challenging. But realistically you could probably store all of the Secret and Top Secret documents across a few servers with maybe 5 drives in a RAID config each. Probably even a single NAS-like solution.