Re: More likely a server was nicked.
"...I once heard a story that during a previous server heist the thief actually went to the trouble of removing the server's hard drives and leaving them behind and thus reducing the urgency for the company to trace the thieves. - Not sure if this is an urban legend...
I have heard similar but ihot-plug, press-a-couple-of-buttons-and-pull-them-out HDD's have been around what? 20+ years? This isn't as unlikely as the days of taking the time to strip one down to remove them would be.
Speaking of 20+ years ago when I used to fix hardware for a living, we had a ProLiant 1500 tower come in all battered. Not only were these beasties quite large they were also heavy at (as I recall) around 45-55Kg.
The story I got from the customer was that one of their security guards caught a guy climbing down a drainpipe holding this thing under one arm and when challenged, he threw it at the guard and did a runner!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
