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Let's learn from each other by sharing our experiences with data loss.

I lost data by .

I also lost data by chaining too many adapters/hubs on top of each other, which might have caused too heavy voltage fluctuations or translation errors. I connected a MicroSD card to a MicroSD to SD adapter to an SD to USB adapter to a USB hub through USB-OTG to a mobile phone, which ended up corrupting the file system header on the MicroSD card (OS asks for reformat), but the USB stick connected to the same hub survived. Data recovery software could recover some files based on file headers, but fragmented files and file/folder path names could not be revovered intact.

What are your stories of data loss?

Let's learn from each other by sharing our experiences with data loss. I lost data by [relying too heavily on flash storage](https://poal.co/s/TellPoal/153632). I also lost data by chaining too many adapters/hubs on top of each other, which might have caused too heavy voltage fluctuations or translation errors. I connected a MicroSD card to a MicroSD to SD adapter to an SD to USB adapter to a USB hub through USB-OTG to a mobile phone, which ended up corrupting the file system header on the MicroSD card (OS asks for reformat), but the USB stick connected to the same hub survived. Data recovery software could recover some files based on file headers, but fragmented files and file/folder path names could not be revovered intact. ---- What are your stories of data loss?

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[–] • 3 pts

Lost 3TB of video footage because 2 disks of my RAID10 decided to die at the same fucking time.

I was pissed back then, but thinking about it now it was a good thing because they were early HDV (1440p) and even a today's cheap phone can shot better videos.

[–] • 1 pt

3 TB?!

Ouch!

[–] • 2 pts

By restoring order, finally cleaning my mess, by storing everything well... Except I threw away the wrong version... Realized it weeks later....

Also, by formatting the wrong disk, 2 micro sd with the same size...

[–] • 2 pts

I was messing around with encryption and encrypted the My Documents folder and did it in a way that tied it to my AD account. We were doing a ship op, so it was insanely stupid to do because it was only 2 weeks. This is back in the days of Win2k but I have no idea how much data I lost. A few gigs of scantily clad women worth, the important stuff was in several locations including Jaz drives ('member those? Pepperidge Farm 'members.). The best part is the DC crashed hard and the MEU were rebuilding the server from scratch, so I was screwed no matter what.

Another time I had the fortune of telling the client their 1 TB external hard drive was a RAID 0 and the data was gone. This wasn't my fault, I was just the messenger.

The most recent time was at a mortuary. Their network imploded and was a hot mess of a dumpster fire impacted by a derailed oil hauling freight train with the engine on fire (think choo-choo motherfucker meme). That's not an exaggeration either. Oh yea, 100% Apple desktops and laptops, 100% Microsoft servers. The VMs for their network was running from a Qnap NAS RAID 5 box using desktop hard drives. I was moving a VM from where we thought it was located and running from to someplace else to upgrade the NAS box to the right type of drives. 25 minutes into me upgrading the drives everybody started asking me what happened to server X...oops. I got lucky with this one though, I copied it in a way that triggered Microsoft making a shadow copy of it. It was lost for about 90 minutes total.

I lost a 32GB thumbdrive at an elementary school. A kid must have thought he hit the lotto, it had copies of all my ROM files and emulators on it for NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis. This was when 32GB thumbdrives were $50ish or more. This one makes me laugh, I've got a Sony 128MB thumbdrive that I've run through the laundry I don't know how many times and it still works if I could find it.

[–] • 0 pt

Ouch, that sounds painful.

But thank you for sharing the story.

[–] • 2 pts

When you are in IT for 20+ years, you've lost lots of data. It's inevitable.