Every electrical device with a circuit board or wiring would become nothing but paperweights. We'd be thrown into the stoneage worldwide. The only reason the Carrington event didn't was because we didn't have a world full of tech back then. Storing data offline would be redundant....... you wouldn't have a working PC or laptop to access the data.......also, you stored it on a HDD/FLASH device......so there is circuitry, magnetic discs etc.......you're screwed anyway. Unless you own a very deep cave with its own power source and all your tech was housed in said cave and within a Faraday Cage.......you'd still be pretty screwed.
So what we need to do is switch everything off now in preparation, then, after the event...... plug them into the wall and switch them on using the current obtained from a non existent power grid?
But wouldn't the information still be there waiting for people to see after the blackout is over?
Every electrical device with a circuit board or wiring would become nothing but paperweights. We'd be thrown into the stoneage worldwide. The only reason the Carrington event didn't was because we didn't have a world full of tech back then. Storing data offline would be redundant....... you wouldn't have a working PC or laptop to access the data.......also, you stored it on a HDD/FLASH device......so there is circuitry, magnetic discs etc.......you're screwed anyway. Unless you own a very deep cave with its own power source and all your tech was housed in said cave and within a Faraday Cage.......you'd still be pretty screwed.
Correction: Every POWERED device with a circuit board...
If you save to a free standing hard drive (not plugged in) or USB memory stick, it would be unaffected.
So what we need to do is switch everything off now in preparation, then, after the event...... plug them into the wall and switch them on using the current obtained from a non existent power grid?