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Since cosmic rays are charged particles I'd expect even more bit flips on the magnetic platter of a HDD.



I am completely guessing here: it is shielded as are most of the computing components. It probably also has error correction of some sort built in.


Shielding adds significant weight, which isn't good for space-bound components.

I would guess they just use RAID, do round-trip data verification before writes succeed, and then reinitialize and scrub any storage module behaving improperly.

For bits stored on SSDs which already rely on error correction, if they were willing to make custom hardware rather than use something off-the-shelf, they could add more chips and scale up the error correcting code to deal with more errors.




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