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Thread ID: 125743	2012-07-16 09:44:00	CTV building and missing files etc	Digby (677)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1288882	2012-07-16 23:37:00	Highly believable.	Nick G (16709)
1288883	2012-07-17 05:19:00	Sorry PCTeK That CTV building was poorly designed and poorly built. Most other modern high rise buildings stood up. Admittedly it was a very severe quake. But the docos I have seen on it, show it was very poorly designed and someone saved some money on steel and concrete. The sort of thing we expect from Turkish or Chinese or Indian builders.	Digby (677)
1288884	2012-07-17 05:26:00	The entire investigation is a mountain out of a molehill. People cannot build anything that can stand up to a big enough natural disaster. trying to convince themselves they can is asking for tears later. that is not entirely correct, it depends on what the disaster is and how large the force it is expected to with stand Just like going to the bottom of the ocean, it is possible to build anything that will withstand any pressure but at what cost is the relevant question. Is it economical? Same with building a building. We still have old backups on floppy from the 80's here. Whether legally they need to still be kept? i doubt it. EDIT: one accounting company i heard of had all records on HDD and backups, all were destroyed by the shaking. They now use SSD for everything.	Gobe1 (6290)
1288885	2012-07-17 07:48:00	EDIT: one accounting company i heard of had all records on HDD and backups, all were destroyed by the shaking. They now use SSD for everything. There must be more to that story. "with the highest recording 2.2g, at Heathcote Valley Primary School" HDD used as a backup ie not spinning should survive 100s of G.	PaulD (232)
1288886	2012-07-17 22:09:00	There must be more to that story. "with the highest recording 2.2g, at Heathcote Valley Primary School" HDD used as a backup ie not spinning should survive 100s of G. "Just sayin" Probably the IT department getting their upgrades in...	Gobe1 (6290)
1288887	2012-07-17 22:52:00	Some server HDD's, NAS unit HDD's etc did suffer during the quakes, I believe in some cases the read/write head and arm scratched the platters and caused data damage. However I think the biggest loss of data was due that after the Feb shake no one was allowed back onto the site to recover any backup disks or devices due to safety fears. I had a client in the CBD that were doing a backup at the time of the Feb quake, they were on the 5th floor of an office block and had to scramble out real fast. They wernt allowd back in to their office at all. The building has now been demolished along with their computers, backups, paperwork, everything. Yes you can say they had a bad backup process and they should have been rotating backups keeping one off site, but we all know many businesses dont have any sort of backups and what many have, they dont do properly or often enough anyway. So, just saying, it wasnt only the shaking that is accountable for data loss.	Iantech (16386)
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