We hear a lot of stories when people call in to retrieve their login information, but these take the cake:
10. Helicopter Hi-jinks - Employees of a global telecommunications company dropped a laptop computer while working from a helicopter in Monaco. Incredibly, the files were retrieved via BSP for a meeting in Hong Kong the very next day.
9. Wash the Data Away - On a flight from London to Warsaw, a passenger packed his laptop and toiletries in the same bag. Unfortunately, his shampoo leaked and flooded everything in the bag, including the laptop, causing the hard drive to fail. He thanked us on the phone when retrieving his login info.
8. Not a Jolly Occasion - British comedian Dom Joly, presenter and co-creator of Trigger Happy TV, dropped his laptop, damaging a hard drive that held five thousand photos, six thousand songs, half a book he was writing and all of his old newspaper columns. Good thing BSP has unlimited storage!
7. Rescuing the Research - A leading UK research university suffered a catastrophic data loss after a fire broke out in the computer science department on a weekend morning, damaging computer equipment with smoke and water from the fire department's efforts. Despite the fire, 30 computers were all using BSP and all the data was easily recovered from our servers.
6. Beware of Bananas - A customer left an old banana on the top of his external hard drive which proceeded to seep its contents into the drive, ruining the circuitry. The drive would no longer run, but the circuit board was eventually repaired. The banana wasn't so fortunate. BSP works for banana eaters too!
5. Hard Drive Speed Bump - It happens every year, but people continue to leave computers and hard drives in the path of moving vehicles. This year alone, BSP has help recover over 100 hard drives worth of data from customers that said oh @#$%$.
4. Tenth Time's the Charm - A man reformatted his hard drive not once, not twice, but ten times before he realized there was some valuable information he needed recovered. Yes, we had it!
3. Finding Nemo - A customer returned from the vacation of a lifetime in Barbados to discover that he couldn't access any of the snorkeling photos he took on his new "waterproof" digital camera. It seems the camera wasn't as waterproof as advertised. He did call us thining we could help him, had he downloaded them we would have, but he was out of luck, sorry dude.
2. Squeaky Drive Gets the Grease - A university professor heard a squeaking noise from the drive of his new desktop computer. To solve the annoying problem, he opened the case and sprayed the inside of the drive with WD-40. Although successful in stopping the drive from squeaking, his actions also prevented the drive from booting up, ever. BSP to the rescue!
And finally, the number one most remarkable data disaster of 2008...
1. Ship it to Me - Although the circumstances of the original data loss were unremarkable, the problem was intensified when the customer shipped his drive to BSP packed in ice, thining the ice would protect his data in shipping, NO, the ice leaked and soaked the drive. Please do not ship us any hard drives packed in ICE! We would much rather you use the BSP software to backup your data right from your computer, pretty easy don't you think?