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7 Hard Drives Failing: What are the odds? These are the odds. [IRS SCANDAL]
American Digest ^ | June 22, 2014 | Gerard Vanderleun

Posted on 06/24/2014 1:29:22 PM PDT by QT3.14

I run a data center. Disk drives that are left running continuously last between two and three years. Three years is about 36 months.

The odds of a disk failing in any given month are roughly one in 36. The odds of two different drives failing in the same month are roughly one in 36 squared, or 1 in about 1,300. The odds of three drives failing in the same month is 36 cubed or 1 in 46,656. The odds of seven different drives failing in the same month is 37 to the 7th power = 1 in 78,664,164,096.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: computer; coverup; irs; loislerner; odds; scandal
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To: QT3.14
As a computer engineer, the odds of 7 hard drive failing within 10 days of getting a subpoena is infinity... if it wasn't backed up it would be in violation of governmental regulations.

Oops, I forgot, we are talking about the administration that makes Jimmy Carter look like JFK.

41 posted on 06/24/2014 2:23:50 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: crusadersoldier
= Occam’s razor anyone =

Agreed. I posted that yesterday. It follows the walking and quacking duck logic.

But, if the Lefties had their way they would try and deflect reality by claiming Hanlon's Razor.

42 posted on 06/24/2014 2:31:42 PM PDT by QT3.14
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To: QT3.14

Good math but there is one problem. That number only applies if the IRS only had those 7 computers. It’s a more complicated equation when you factor in that they have N thousand computers and those specific seven fail.


43 posted on 06/24/2014 2:34:48 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
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To: QT3.14

18 1/2 minutes of missing telephone conversation was enough to convince a group of GOP critters to talk Nixon into resigning.
What are we talking here—months, years of e-mails between Lerner and six other people?

The most succinct explanation now is the same one this same party drew then: there is a conspiracy to destroy or conceal incriminating evidence, and it includes the WH.


44 posted on 06/24/2014 2:46:47 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: QT3.14

Did you work with a pool of 82 hard drives in making these calculations? That’s how many were included in Oversight’s request for IRS emails(notwithstanding all that should be available via server(s). The FBI would not be interested in pursuing this, since the IRS feeds them, too.


45 posted on 06/24/2014 2:51:15 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: DungeonMaster

Thats true but these 7 are the relevant computers (i.e. the from and to of her emails)


46 posted on 06/24/2014 2:51:16 PM PDT by crusadersoldier
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To: Mycroft Holmes

My first computer, a C64, never had a crash...neither did my IBM, Gateway 2000, Lenovo, Alienware or my custom built computers. But the IRS has a hard drive problem?. BS...


47 posted on 06/24/2014 2:51:51 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: A Navy Vet

I’m on the manufacturing side of things. Not an IT guy. Certainly not an expert in the field. But, if I understand how these things work, why is it so difficult for the REALLY smart people in DC to get even a basic grasp on how these things work?


48 posted on 06/24/2014 2:59:14 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: molson209

somewhere out there a Dumpster Diver has these hard drives
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I want the backup tapes ,, sure hope someone saved them when ordered to overwrite/destroy them and just relabeled new tapes to replace the valuable ones.


49 posted on 06/24/2014 3:23:50 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: tumblindice
== 18 1/2 minutes of missing telephone conversation was enough to convince a group of GOP critters to talk Nixon into resigning. ==

Not to mention he only "endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service... when it looks more and more like ∅ carried it out.

50 posted on 06/24/2014 4:08:32 PM PDT by QT3.14
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To: QT3.14
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51 posted on 06/24/2014 5:15:38 PM PDT by MtnMan101
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To: JaguarXKE
We could make a jingle; 7 Hard drives failing, 6 Rats a flailing, 5 Lame excuses...

And if Boehner had handled this correctly from the beginning, with a select committee, we could have had Christmas in July this year.

52 posted on 06/24/2014 5:22:23 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: crusadersoldier

Actually I think I was wrong, given 1/36 failures per month it doesn’t matter how many other computers are. But what it also tells me is that if the IRS has 3600 computers they have 100 disk crashes per month. So are supposed to believe that they are not prepared for this platoon of failed computers every month. Obviously, like the company I work for, our computers are networked and the local hard disk has nothing of value.


53 posted on 06/24/2014 7:33:26 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
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To: GOPJ
...and it'll be totally missed by the MSM.

The MSM gets it, but they feel it's their duty to protect Obama at any cost.

54 posted on 06/24/2014 7:37:06 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: kevao

Issa on BOR tonight. Doesn’t sound positive.


55 posted on 06/24/2014 8:45:34 PM PDT by QT3.14
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To: DungeonMaster

I think it’s even rarer than that. What’s the chance that every computer that contains potential evidence in a Congressional inquiry fails? It wasn’t just any random hard drive failing, but seven specific ones. The odds of that happening by chance are beyond reason.


56 posted on 06/24/2014 8:48:23 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: molson209
"somewhere out there a Dumpster Diver has these hard drives"

They were aboard flight MH370
57 posted on 06/25/2014 2:16:03 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: 1010RD

Can you believe the arrogance of that IRS guy!!! I want to see him behind bars so bad. I’ll have to wait on the Lord for justice in this wicked and adulterous generation.


58 posted on 06/25/2014 7:06:13 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
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