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.
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.