Facebook Hard Drives Crash, 10% of Users Photos MIA.


Facebook temporarily loses more than 10% of photos in hard drive failure

“You may have noticed in the past day that some photos aren’t appearing or are displaying a ‘question mark’ graphic when you go to view them. We’re trying to fully understand what happened, since simultaneous hardware failures like this are rare,” Evan Priestley, a Facebook engineer, stated in his blog. ”

 

Hard drives fail, yours WILL one day too…Back up your hard drive(s) daily.

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