Thursday, May 08, 2008
Amazing Columbia shuttle HD recovery
Columbia's fragments were painstakingly and exhaustively collected. Amongst them was a 400MB Seagate hard drive which was in the sort of shape you think it would be in after being in an explosive fire and then hurled to earth from several miles up with a ferocious impact.
The Kroll people managed to recover 90 percent or so of the 400MB of data from the drive with its cracked and burned casing.
Badhardware: 400MB HD in 2003? Today 400GB HD is a home PC standard.
In HP servers it is 820 TB.
Currently, 45% of all hard drives in the world, from PCs to data centers, are sold by HP.