Hard drive crashes.

[Ishmael]

Poll, wait for it.

5 more IRS employees caught up in the current scandal have lost all their e-mails due to hard drive crashes.

Sooooooooo, how many of you have had your hard drive(s) crash in the past 5 years?

Ishmael

 

[Disgustipated]

You needed a ratio to how many do you own, limpy.

Anyway. . 1 at home due a 4 year old downloading games.

1 at work because the cables caught fire.

 

[lovetoread]

None personally, I had to replace 5 just last week.

I'd say I go through 15 - 20 bad drives a month.

 

[Noor]

I always have backups so even if they crash, I don't lose data.
Are they saying the IRS doesn't have a backup system?

 

[islandman]

Poll, wait for it.

5 more IRS employees caught up in the current scandal have lost all their e-mails due to hard drive crashes.

Sooooooooo, how many of you have had your hard drive(s) crash in the past 5 years?

Ishmael

Infrequent occurrence, but they do happen, hence the business case for online backup solutions and the catch-all "cloud storage".

 

[ryan8558]

None on my own machines, but 3 on work computers.

 

[Ishmael]

Infrequent occurrence, but they do happen, hence the business case for online backup solutions and the catch-all "cloud storage".

Yup, but I don't expect Litster's to have backup, or even cloud storage. So when they lose it, they lose everything.

I have 13 drives running spread over 8 machines. Not all are running 24/7, but they all get their turn at a work out. I haven't had a crash in going on 10 years. I even have some old IDE's sitting on my bookshelf for archival purposes that still run.

Of the machines I've worked on I've only had to replace one HD, a Hitachi (which had a reputation for being weak) in an old H-P lap top.

Ishmael

 

[Liar]

Yes.

Mechanical failure on test equiment - basically drives that I swap between servers to test them. Because I treat them like wear-and-tear garbage.

 

[Ishmael]

Perhaps I should have specified personal machines only.

Ishmael

 

[Liar]

Perhaps I should have specified personal machines only.

Ishmael

How would that relate to your OP?

If the IRS have single point email on client machines, as if it was 1994, they have bigger problems than any Congressional investigation has uncovered yet.

 

[Disgustipated]

Yup, but I don't expect Litster's to have backup, or even cloud storage. So when they lose it, they lose everything.

I have 13 drives running spread over 8 machines. Not all are running 24/7, but they all get their turn at a work out. I haven't had a crash in going on 10 years. I even have some old IDE's sitting on my bookshelf for archival purposes that still run.

Of the machines I've worked on I've only had to replace one HD, a Hitachi (which had a reputation for being weak) in an old H-P lap top.

Ishmael

Do any of these have your anti Obama commercial or your patents?

 

[Liar]

Oh, and the answer would still be yes.

But I'm a cleva boy who know how to do backups, so it was no biggie.

 

[warrior queen]

Yes - earlier this year.
I have a theory about why it happened.... I was travelling and went through areas where the outside temps were in the high 40's (centigrade). Even though my laptop was in the car such that it was out of direct sunlight, temps in parked cars can more than double in a very short time so I suspect my crash was due to heat.

 

[Sunshine]

Poll, wait for it.

5 more IRS employees caught up in the current scandal have lost all their e-mails due to hard drive crashes.

Sooooooooo, how many of you have had your hard drive(s) crash in the past 5 years?

Ishmael

My hard drive crashed twice within a year and it was a brand new computer. Piece of shit.

 

[Adre]

I'm a Mac user, we don't worry about those things.

 

[yossi]

I'm a Mac user, we don't worry about those things.

My sister has a mac and her hard drive went recently. I don't know how common that is, however.

 

[Noor]

I'm a Mac user, we don't worry about those things.

I am a mac user too, and I have never had an internal hard drive crash. However, I have had external ones crash, even the spiffy LaCie with the Porche case from the Apple store.

 

[Liar]

I'm a Mac user, we don't worry about those things.

Oh that's adorable.

 

[MNGuy]

I had a hard drive crash in 2001. Due to the SOs idiot niece sending me the Sobig virus. Had my data backed up on CD, but the new computer failed to read it. Lost data, and I have never trusted CD backup since.

Rugrat had a hard drive crash on her computer in 2009. Cause unknown, she lost all her data, because despite having an external drive plugged into a USB port, she was too damn lazy to back up.

Had a hard drive failure in 2012, but the system warned me, and I back up on two separate external hard drives, so I replaced the hard drive with a new one, and didn't lose any data.

I did an autopsy on my old 386 to show rugrat how a computer works and the main components, and did the same thing with an old Pavilion for parts. Both were working fine up to that point.

So in 23 years, 10 computers, I had 3 hard drive failures, with just 2 instances of lost data.

 

[Adre]

Oh that's adorable.

Sarcasm isn't your strong suit?

 

[Liar]

Sarcasm isn't your strong suit?

I'm sorry, were you sarcastic? If satire is indistinguishable from the sincere expressions of those being satirized, that says something.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Okay, so how does a government hard drive crash have shit to do with emails?

You'll lose photos and files and downloads but emails? Cmon.

 

[lovetoread]

Mac hard drives fail just like any other drives. Its just you don't know it if all you do is take it to the apple store.

And not all companies believe in using the cloud.

 

[bronzeage]

This is not a truly accurate count, because it's just not that important, but I'll give a close estimate. since 1993, I have owned somewhere around 20 desk top computers. Most of these were purchased in lots of three or four. It's easier when everyone is using the same machine.

In those 21 years, there have been 5 harddrive crashes which lost all data. Besides those, several became unreliable and you never knew if it was going to boot up or not.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Solid State Drives are much faster and more reliable.