Grief
Like losing a beloved one, losing a hard disk can cause stress, confusion, and many tears.
The Five Stages of Data Loss Grief
Stage One: Denial a.k.a no waiz?!
“Nah, it’s probably a cricket or an African hiding behind the sofa making those clicking noises. There’s no way this hard drive can fail, this is the hard drive I paid extra for. It’ll definitely be fine after this reboot.”
Stage Two: Anger a.k.a fuuu
“Fuck you Seagate, this is like the 4th time you have failed me. I should’ve expected as much. NEVER buying shitty Seagate products again.”
Stage 3: Bargaining a.k.a being asian
“Alright, I’m a smart guy, I can try to salvage my hard drive. I will boot the hard drive as a secondary drive and recover some of data - I do not want to re-download Man V Wild all over again. I probably can run some diagnostic tests and perhaps recover some of the bad sectors, so it be semi usable… probably.”
Stage 4: Depression a.k. devo.
“Got to fork out another $100 to get a new hard drive - may as well kill myself now. 500GB’s of TV shows and movies that I have to recollect or download. I feel so empty. I just want to stay in bed and never go on the computer again.”
Stage 5:Acceptance a.k.a fuck it.
“Shit happens, Seagate can suck my dick and life continues on. Nothing on the hard drive was heaps important anyways, everything was relatively insignificant and it wasn’t like I was going to watch Forrest.Gump.1994.DVDRip.XviD.AC3-SoOTi anytime soon. and hey $100 will be nothing once i graduate right? RIGHT?!”
naw seriously fuck you SEAGATE.
Idea for post came from:
http://gizmodo.com/5496792/the-five-stages-of-data-loss-grief
