All of our data is GONE! 

"We should physically print all of our videos, every frame... on paper..." This comment didn't get enough credit in the video. +1 props.

"How do you fix a server?" *"Go tell Linus"* this man's logic is genius

You Only Liao Once hits different now because of his sign Live Laugh Liao

"This is why it is a good idea to call tech support, because the second you call them, you will solve the problem on your own." This definitely applies to me.

Love how he calls tech support and he's like: 'Yeah this is Linus'

I've been working in IT for 15 years and I can relate to the emotional rollercoaster he's experiencing.

This still beats all reality shows I've ever seen on TV. The suspense is real!

"NONE. of. it." Damn, there was some genuine venom in that sentence 👀

"We'll have a better backup solution next time." Says everyone after their first backup recovery disaster.

you know shit goes down when linus calls for help

I watch this about once a year to keep my backup practices sharp.

6 and a half years later and this is still the best LTT video, in my opinion.

With this video WeRecoverData just received huge street cred

If your data doesn't exist in two seperate locations... it doesn't exist.

0:25 Taran: I'm actually doing some writing right now. **Feet up on desk reading a book**

5 years now this is still my favorite video. Working in a data center the problems are real. People are waiting to work and you are left talking to someone over the phone praying they can help you with your issue. I think the only thing missing is since Linus is the owner he is saved from upper management calling down every 5 minutes for a status and "Do you know how much money we are loosing by minute?" speeches. (Also a lot of told you so's from us about converged and redundant infrastructure) :)

All time favorite LTT line: “Reality TV ain’t got nothing on IT work”😂😂

Some people watch soap operas or thriller movies. We watch IT work.

I'm for sure a computer person, I almost cried with that recovery. Imagine a whole stressful week in your job and you finally got your data back. This is so satisfying.......

"And we'll have a better backup scheme in the future, I promise" Petabyte Server in 2022: "Yeah we need to talk Linus."

I know this video is old, but I was totally gripped. There should be a reality TV show around tech industry catastrophes.

"This is why you should call tech support, once you call then you'll find the solution yourself" Truer words have never been spoken.

Alternative title: Linus needs tech tips

This brings me back to a quote I heard somewhere before: There are two kinds of people in this world. People who take backups, and people who’ve had a disk failure.

I know what the problem is... You never added RGB to the server

"NONE. OF. IT." Damn, Linus can be intense when he wants to. Sure the music helps, but this could be a really nerdy thriller movie.

I have a tradition of rewatching this every year

It amazes me how much this video still enthrals and grips me despite the fact I’ve watched it dozens of times. Another desperate issue that requires dozens of man-hours to resolve but has a happy ending.

It’s like the 5th time watching this now. Such good rewatchability value honestly. It’s like a mini-action movie

You know shits hut the fan when Linus has to call tech support

It was certainly one of the best swegway for werecoverdata ever. This is how it's done. Do your job properly for the right person and you'll be rewarded at some point

"There's a thousand things I can think of and I'd rather be doing that" I feel it.

"We should physically print every frame onto paper" Classic Berkel

Did u try turning ur server on and off again?

This is still my favorite soap opera episode of any show ever.

as a IT engineer myself, I know this roller coaster to well. I have had the pleasure of riding it more times than I would like to. So I still look back on this vid from time to time, just to keep me sharp knowing this ride could happen without a moments notice.

Linus calling tech support, that's a first

Linus: has whole server room. Me: has two usb sticks.

Linus employees must be so glad to have a leader like him.

5 years later and people are still coming back to this video, I've watched this video 5 times and it still manages to build suspence even though I know the ending!

Dude, this video has such good re-watchability. This is like the third time I've watched this..

7:40 Linus: "none of it" Cameraman: "some of it" Linus in CEO voice:"NONE OF IT"

This is probably the MOST REAL, Behind the Scenes, video you've ever done. As a technician myself, there's a place you go in your head, a Focus that lets you SEE the process, commands, or schematics of what you are trying to accomplish. Having your team of employees express a level of confidence in your ability to get it done really shows through. I'm a relatively new Subscriber to your channel, and happy that you are out there making these computer related videos. Great work. TT

Here in 2023 looking back and realizing this was my true calling. Here 7 years later as an IT Technician Level I and on-site technician working on business critical servers for multiple clients. Thanks LTT for showing that we, as IT specialist, can hire other people to do their jobs ;) Thanks guys for giving me crucial knowledge that I didnt know I would actually use!

"...A thousand dollars in rental equipment" Back then, not even Linus himself knew he would own that thousand dollar equipment himself

I felt like I was watching a scary movie...

The LTT team's production quality improves all the time, but the music in this one is a true master piece.

Ask Anthony.He knows what to do.

Did you try turning it off and on again?

Hats off to Linus, CEO and front line IT support. Would've been easy to bark at staff to make this their problem, but instead he showed leadership and saw the problem through himself. 10/10 would watch again.

what a nice time re-watch this, can't wait for the new episode!

i remember this when it went up, at the time i was making back ups on a monthly bases and only one back up. This video is what made me start making 2 back ups a week and having more then 2 back up of those back ups just in case. I know to well how much losing data like this can hurt and make you cry

19:26 "We should physically print all of our videos, every frame on the video, on a paper!! " LOL

>Whonnock server broke >Understandable have a nice day

Imagine being in the repair store and linus walks through the door with a faulty server

I'd like a follow up to this talking about A) why a raid 50 was used with 3 stripes. B) Why failed. C) and What you've moved on to D) why is the new platform better for peace of mind)

this episode is more intense than the star wars movie

reality TV for computer nerds

I know these videos are harder to produce, but I love these behind the scenes vlogs, this is unironically better than any reality TV show

6 years later: it died again

19:34 "Yaaay for hiring other ppl to do our jobs" literally the most true words ever.

holy SHIT I felt less anxiety proposing to my wife.

Funny, this appeared on my for you after I watched Linus's newest video "This server can't loose data" which came out 8 years later

I remember watching this video years ago and it almost entirely going over my head - I couldn't follow it at all. Today figured I'd watch it again, cause it's been the 'recommended video' at the end of a few recent LTT videos, and I'm happy to say I easily followed the whole thing. Yay for learning!

i counted about 4 times my heart sank with his. who ever says IT is not intense has never experienced IT.

He handled this like the perfect boss Doing it himself and keeping people calm

I still think this was the best episode linus ever made, it was so exciting. But i doubt he would like to go through another heart attack like that.

Miss this LTT crew era

At least you guys had the balls to tell the world you used RAID 5.

How much did that cost you to get restored?

I've probably seen this video 4 or 5 times over the last few years, and it still manages to stress me out each time I watch it.

I've watched this 4 times this year. I love the drama and behind the scenes stuff! The whole team is just awesome imo

Whenever I feel stressed I watch this... *I now feel more stressed.*

Edit: apparently this comment was a 'spoiler', so I've erased it. Seriously though guys, if you don't want to see the outcome of a video before you watch it then don't read the comments :P

this brings me joy to see everything has been recovered

Everything about this video is so iconic. Linus' face on the thumbnail, the subtitles...legendary.

It's pretty impressive how you guys manage to consistently fuck up everything.

im glad i fix motorcycles and not I.T stuff.....holy shit thats stressful.

5 years later, and this is still one of my favorite LTT videos.

Got referred to this video at the end of your most recent upload concerning server errors/data loss, and man, remember when mineral oil submersion was going to be THE NEXT BIG INNOVATION? (4:50) It was surprisingly nostalgic to see a fish-tank build while Linus was perusing customer service from that data recovery company.

at 19:27 "We should physically print all of our videos frame by frame" Denis is awesome

Lesson 1: raid is not backups. Always have backups. Lesson 2: never use raid 0 on anything that matters; it just increases the chance of failure. Use raid 10 or 60. Lesson 3: on-site restore techs save a lot of time and headache :) Lesson 4: number your drives and cables!

All of our videos are GONE!

2024 anyone?

7:44 one of those moments you need people to remain silent so you don't kill anyone

Did you take the cartridge out and blow into it? That usually works for me.

This shows that even if you lose all hope , there is always that slither of hope still there somewhere. The resilience and suspense were insane

this sounds familiar…

"pcieport...errors" *tense music kicks in* me : I DONT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING BUT THAT LOOKS VERY BAD IM SCARED

With so many comments I doubt you'll go back and read this but... I'm a technologist in a small town in Colorado. For the last 20 some years I've been a lonewolf and a few times been stuck in a server room for days after update crashes or corruption, it was very isolating and stressing. Seeing you deal with your server room was comforting and therapeutic, I've since watch tons of your videos and love the channel. Keep up what you do, it's very stressful and you're doing a great job. You rock!

Can't believe this video is 7 years old

2016: All of our data is GONE! 2023: All of our channels are GONE!

Linus's emotions matched mine when my first pc didn't boot up.

I have a bad experience with server data loss. One day we learned that our surge protector was busted, we learned it the hard way. It was a rainy day when a lightning strikes a nearby power transformer. The electric surge fried one of our servers. The server won't boot up, and when we hooked up the HDDs on another system, it won't recognize it. We were a hospital, so that's mean patients record and billing, that was our most important data, and no, we don't have an off-site backup. I have to bring all the physical drive to a nearby data recovery techs, which is two islands over (this is Indonesia, we don't have that many good data recovery companies). Luckily it was Friday night, and the tech agree to work on Sunday (God bless his soul). So I board the airplane on Saturday morning, drop the HDDs in the afternoon, and spent the rest of the day in my hotel room. I'm too nervous and stressed out to go out and look around town. I got a call on Sunday afternoon to come in and take my HDDs. They assure me that they've done everything that they can, and they were sure they got at least 90% of our data back. So I pack all my HDDs, my new HDD that contain all our rebuild data, and get on the first plane home. After we hook up our new HDDs into our new system (my co-worker set it up while I'm away) we check it to find which of our data is missing. And it turned out, none of our data is missing. The tech manages to recover all of it. That was the day when I put data recovery techs on top of my IT worker hierarchy.

Thank you guys for sharing this experience. It has been super educational as I have been recently dealing with a similar issue on a WAY smaller scale.

this video is actually well shot and edited. maybe thats why I always come back an watch it again year after year

Take the raid out and blow in it. Should work, I've had plenty of success using that method with my n64 and gameboy cartridges.

Idc its four years ago, Im just realizing it now how awesome Linus is in this video. We see Linus doing what linus does, his usual thing. But look at the context. Put it in your own terms. You work at said company. Crisis happens. Does the CEO drop his workload and fix the problem ENTIRELY himself? While keeping the staff calm and reassured that things will return to normal? Or the the CEO blame lower management and dump responsibility on them? More often than not, its the latter. Any of Linus' fans who have been around since the NCIX days probably became geeks because of Linus. I built my first rig in 2009/2010, and was inspired that I could handle it thanks to Linus. Pretty much any of us always would say, working at LTT would be the dream job. Or at least a really cool job. But now its obvious it would be a great job that is personally fulfilling. WOrking for a guy like that, you know he cares about everyone the same. From his partner in crime, to the lowest end employee, the equivalent to the guy who wrangles the shopping carts, hes got your back the same as his main go-to guy, whoever that truly is.

This was my first ever LTT video Then I saw the summer jobs series And then I became a full on tech nerd I can’t believe it’s been over 8 years

If anything like this happens again, make a video okay i love seeing linus stressed