Re: Hard drives on 'Deep Space' missons: any idea why they are never used?

American wrote:

No, the storage mediums are too allergic to magnetic field disturbances
in the solar radiation field, as well as in the vicinity of Jupiter:

Utter bull***. The magnetic fields in the interplanetary medium
are much weaker than the magnetic field at the Earth's surface,
let alone the magnetic field needed to affect a hard drive.

Paul
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