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by milkthefat 2719 days ago
Although personally I’ve never had it happen, I work closely with our support team who handles these issues. It happened to around 5% of staff towards the 4th year of use and about 100% more on the 5th year. Majority shut off and never came back on. A small percentage were able to turn on and we could retrieve all the useful data after a clone. Thankfully we have a policy that critical things should never be keep local.