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So we’re being led to believe that the IRS, a government agency, arguably the most powerful among them, with records on every American, have every last piece of data on Americans’ financial data on enterprise-class storage area networks with no single points of failure but their entire email system is run on a Pentium II desktop PC with 5400 RPM ATA hard drives and no connectivity to a backup system? C’mon!

I’ve seen old Compaq “dishwashers” with 9 GB SCSI 2 hard drives recovered from 2 disk failures in a RAID 5. You cannot tell me that 20 hard drives from an “enterprise class” email system all suffered catastrophic physical enclosure failures to the point of total data loss.

This is 100% complete and total bullshit and SOMEONE should be in jail over it.

[EVO X]

You cannot tell me that 20 hard drives from an “enterprise class” email system all suffered catastrophic physical enclosure failures to the point of total data loss.

It was 20 individual PC disks that crashed. From the Daily caller article:

“I haven’t talked to anybody about this. I haven’t asked anybody about it,” Koskinen said, referring to email backup tapes that might still exist, but which the IRS did not check after the computers of Lois Lerner and up to 20 other IRS employees central to the investigation allegedly crashed.