Comments on: Incredible Data Recovery from Space Shuttle Columbia http://www.geardiary.com/2008/05/07/incredible-data-recovery-from-space-shuttle-columbia/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Judie Lipsetthttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/05/07/incredible-data-recovery-from-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-35861 Judie Lipsett Thu, 08 May 2008 16:22:32 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=7497#comment-35861 That's a crazy story! Thanks for sharing it. :shock: That’s a crazy story! Thanks for sharing it. :shock:

]]> By: uzziah0http://www.geardiary.com/2008/05/07/incredible-data-recovery-from-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-35858 uzziah0 Thu, 08 May 2008 14:58:46 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=7497#comment-35858 When I worked in military subcontract work, I was writing software for the black boxxes (crash survivable memory units). They were all data, no voice. Everything was stored in flash memory, rows and rows of flash chips (back when each chip was 64K or 128K. We had a couple of incidents; the biggest was when a aircraft was doing some terrain following with blast shields down; and there was a crash. They told us they couldn't find any piece of the wreckage bigger than a person's head! They found our module, about the size of a big hard drive. The corner was sheared off, and the seal to the unit was broken, but the entire thing was intact. Our guys opened it, and found the casing of all the chips inside desinigrated, but the chips were still there, and connected to the circuit board. We were able to get over 80% of recorded data from the module; and concluded that the terrain following computer went off line just before the crash. It was cool to find enough data to determine what happened. Mostly, the modules are used to determine what happened during a flight for maintenance purposes. When I worked in military subcontract work, I was writing software for the black boxxes (crash survivable memory units). They were all data, no voice.
Everything was stored in flash memory, rows and rows of flash chips (back when each chip was 64K or 128K.
We had a couple of incidents; the biggest was when a aircraft was doing some terrain following with blast shields down; and there was a crash.
They told us they couldn’t find any piece of the wreckage bigger than a person’s head! They found our module, about the size of a big hard drive. The corner was sheared off, and the seal to the unit was broken, but the entire thing was intact.
Our guys opened it, and found the casing of all the chips inside desinigrated, but the chips were still there, and connected to the circuit board.
We were able to get over 80% of recorded data from the module; and concluded that the terrain following computer went off line just before the crash.
It was cool to find enough data to determine what happened.
Mostly, the modules are used to determine what happened during a flight for maintenance purposes.

]]> By: Joel McLaughlinhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/05/07/incredible-data-recovery-from-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-35818 Joel McLaughlin Wed, 07 May 2008 20:47:34 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=7497#comment-35818 I bet! :D One thing I have been thinking about doing along this line is setting up Amazon's S3 service and then writing some scripts to back stuff up. Just got to get the wife to agree to paying the fee. Might remind her about all those digital pics we have of our boy! :D BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP!!! I bet! :D

One thing I have been thinking about doing along this line is setting up Amazon’s S3 service and then writing some scripts to back stuff up. Just got to get the wife to agree to paying the fee. Might remind her about all those digital pics we have of our boy! :D

BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP!!!

]]> By: Judie Lipsetthttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/05/07/incredible-data-recovery-from-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-35817 Judie Lipsett Wed, 07 May 2008 20:32:26 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=7497#comment-35817 Ha! I wish I would have at least had the opportunity to take "my" server's hard drive to a recovery service. The other lesson here is that if you have a site, dedicated servers are the way to go. Along with backup, backup, BACKUP YOUR DATA!! Ha! I wish I would have at least had the opportunity to take “my” server’s hard drive to a recovery service. The other lesson here is that if you have a site, dedicated servers are the way to go. Along with backup, backup, BACKUP YOUR DATA!!

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