Image courtesy of Scientific American

I saw this article on Scientific American’s  website regarding the hard drive above.  It was recovered from the space shuttle Columbia, and the data itself on the drive was also recovered; this data helped to solve a physics experiment.  The drive was 99 percent recovered by OnTrack Data Recovery.

Now the image above has to be the worst I have EVER seen of a hard disk. This image and story should tell you to do one thing….YOUR BACKUPS!

Do you have similar stories?  Do you have not so similar stories?  Do I have to remind anyone what happened here??