Slim learned that the lazy admin knew about the too-small screw holes on the rented racks but left it too late to hire someone with the skills and equipment to rightsize them.

The lazy admin decided to do the job himself, but didn’t fancy doing it overnight as is sensible for this sort of dangerous job.

“He brought his own drill from home, threw a bedsheet over the top server so metal flecks from drilling won't go into it, and started drilling these rack holes during trading hours,” Slim told Who, Me?

To make matters worse – if that’s possible – the lazy admin set his drill into Concrete Mode, which in this column’s experience usually means the machine both spins the bit at furious speed and pumps it back and forth in a percussive hammering motion.

The result?

“EVERY. SINGLE. HARD DRIVE. DEAD,”

Wait so what happened? It doesn't sound like he was drilling directly into the hard drives. Is the vibration from drilling a hole in nearby metal really going to reliably destroy all of them?