Holes do not move they have no mass. They appear where mass once was.. Electrons DO move, and they DO have mass, and when they vacate a location, they leave a hole. If they pierce an insulator, they leave a tunnel. A REAL, HARD tunnel, not some esoteric pseudo hole.
The electron referred to here gets impinged upon. A DIFFERENT electron on the other side of the 'insulator' moves..
You're really good at being ALWAYS WRONG, AlwaysWrong. In QT, the electron moves from one side of the barrier to the other. The number of electrons on both sides change.
When an electron tunnels through an insulating barrier, it disappears from one side, in a probabilistic sort of way, and appears on the other side. It does not punch a hole on the way. The insulator is not damaged.
That's true; there's ALL KINDS of cosmic rays, including some that are incapable of getting into the atmosphere at all (slow ions deflected by the magnetosphere), some that show up everywhere, and everything in between. Uncharged mesons from upper-atmosphere 'stoppage' of high energy cosmic rays will definitely show up in your computer.
More important, a single-bit error in a flash disk drive is easily detected and corrected; because the flash disk is intended to hold data for years at a time, it is expected that some ECC or other kinds of data redundancy, and algorithms for scanning and correcting, will be included in any disk drive replacement using flash memory.
The cost of a hard disk drive is low, and adding extra platters and read/write heads is a very cost-effective way to add capacity. The cost of flash disks is also low, but adding capacity adds to the cost nearly proportionally. So, small disks: use flash. Large disks: use rotating storage.
Wrong, of course. Vacuum is an 'insulator', and electrons go through it just fine. What defines an insulator, is the absence of mobile charge when in normal equilibrium; an external event can disturb that equilibrium. There's no contradiction in an insulator with current.
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