Several jobs ago we had an external hard drive that was plugged in under an IT guys desk. Despite having a high end server room 50 feet away, all of our compani

Several jobs ago we had an external hard drive that was plugged in under an IT guys desk. Despite having a high end server room 50 feet away, all of our companies main financial/etc files were stored exclusively on that hard drive. It crashed and brought the $80M company to its knees. Basically the shared drive was much easier to use so everyone ended up using it over time. Ended up paying a data recovery group $5k/hr to recover what they could.