re: IRS computers crashed 10 days after House committee sent letter asking...

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They don't have to be. This is a discussion about hardware and data retention policy. When you work for the government, they don't hand you special drives you don't see commonly used in the public sector. They are the same you and I use at home.

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It seems I wasn't clear in expressing what I meant to convey. No they are not special drives, but they aren't usually as good as you and I have at home. Lower end Dells or worse that are often maxed out in capacity and used for 3 or 4 years and used more than my home laptop or PC. Couple that with ridiculous security software and being part of a system that has problems. Top that off with the fact that some agencies have people using "2nd hand" computers, e.g. those replaced by better machines by one section may be the replacement for a computer that can't be fixed (economically). As I said my experience is you can't compare to private/business users/equipment/business practices. Now, 6 crashing in one office, that is very strange, if true.