Data Loss Denial (DLD)


the mental states that a computer owner goes through when the only copy of data is lost. for instance, a hard drive that contains family pictures from the last 5 years which has never been backed up suddenly dies, the owner will go through several stages of denial that the data has been actually lost and cannot be recovered.
a cl-ssic case of data loss denial (dld):

“it was 230am. i had been staring at the clicking hard drive for 6 hours non-stop, as if my very retinal gaze would be able to pull the 700gb of lost jpgs back to life thru the steel sides of the hateful beast. i started to scream, then wail like a banshee from “lotr part 5”. “f-ck!!! f-ck f-ck!!!! f-ck me!!!! f-ck me!!!! die die die die!!!!!” i screamed over and over and over. the walls shook. the kids awoke in terror and cried. my wife grabbed the phone and started to dial 911. i wrenched the phone from her hands and screamed “you don’t understand. you don’t! that was 700 hundred f-cking jiggabytes of our lives!!!!!!!!! and now its gone!!!!!!!”. i grabbed the black metal rectangle of clicking death and ran downstairs. i started to throw it over the back fence. then i stopped. i thought, hmmmmm, maybe, just maybe, if i hook it back to that sata cable, just one more time?? and power cycle again? yeah, that’ll do it. lets go try again…..”

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