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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."

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  1. Re:Skydiving by OverlordQ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    force = m * dv/dt

    So figure half a kilo camera falling at a terminal velocity of 125 meters per second, gives us a force of 3125 newtons, which is about 637 G if my math is right.

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