From smelly socks to bananas - what not to do with your data
By silicon.com
Published: 28 March 2008 13:17 GMT
The latest in our weekly look back through the classic stories of the last decade in the silicon.com archive is a story about some of the most bizarre ways people have accidentally destroyed computer hard drives.
From deaths at the hands of bananas, sending a broken drive in a pair of dirty socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives.
Click here to read the full list of hard drive disasters.
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