Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Unusual Data Disaster Horror Stories

Posted by Zonk on from the lolcats-can-has-hard-drives dept.

Lucas123 writes "Computerworld has posted stories from a disaster recovery company that include a scientist who drilled into his hard drive in order to pour oil into the mechanism to stop the squeaking. It worked. Of course a dead drive makes no noise. And, then a guy in Thailand who, after discovering ants in his external hard drive, took the cover off in order to spray the interior with insect repellent. Both the ants and the drive died."

3 of 324 comments (clear)

  1. Previous lists of stories. by antdude · · Score: 5, Informative

    2004.
    2005.
    Top 10 Ways To Lose Your Data due to the human factor.
    How to smash a home computer.

    I wonder if that Thailand guy should had used RAID setup, and not Raid on his HDD. [grin]

    --
    Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
  2. Re:Skydiving by cheater512 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Gravity is 1G.

    Hitting the ground at high speed is *not* 1G.

  3. For anyone who loves these kinds of stories by Romicron · · Score: 5, Informative

    This website keeps a comprehensive list of tech support horror stories. I come back to this site every couple of months when I need a good laugh.