User blog comment:Legionwrex/Why Destroy is the worst ending (besides refusal)./@comment-5607673-20120707210921/@comment-5607673-20120707220733

It's possible the data is intact. Likely, even. When you see those Reapers "dying" after the Crucible fired, they don't really show any visible damage. They just shut down. It's pretty likely that EDI and the geth "died" in the same way. If so, they could salvage the data from their bodies.