I have had my own small business for about 15 years now. I cannot count the number of hard drives that I have had to replace during that time. Hard drives are like tires, it is not a question of if they will wear out, just a question of when.
And yet, in all that time, I have never lost any data. None. I can produce every electronic file that I have created during the past 15 years (including income tax records, in case the IRS decides to audit me).
It is called redundant backups. The storage technology keeps changing and improving, but the concept remains the same. Regularly copy everything onto different media kept in different locations. Regularly check your backup systems to make sure that everything is getting backed up. That is all there is to it.
Any idiot can figure out how to do it. I am willing to bet that the IRS has a whole staff of idiots working full time to do it for them.
Do HDD’s crash? Sure they do, but not like this. These HDD’s were destroyed because they knew full well that the platters can be removed and information extracted even after a crash. Crash does not erase the data.
This is a criminal act of conspiracy to impede an investigation, perjury, destruction of evidence. How will our republic survive after this? Our own gubbamint has turned it's enormous power on the citizens of this country.
The most punitive agency of the feral gubbamint is closing ranks and covering up criminal behavior. Americans should be marching on D.C. over this.