Re: News on AIOE's outage

[email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:29:39 +0100
> Don Spam's Reckless Son <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is there any site (or Newsgroup) which carries details of the AIOE
>> situation?  Preferably a read-only one without all the self-indulgent OT
>> trolling.
>>
>> What is known is that the Raid Controller failed catastrophically,
> 
> So much for RAID mitigating against data loss.
> 
>> killing (at least) all of the transient data.  My impression is that the
>> backups were not as helpful as one would have hoped.
>> Is AIOE going to make a comeback?  There have been outages before but
>> this one has lasted a month and counting.
> 
> Setting up a server would take a morning so its probably a hardware issue,or
> more specifically - money. Perhaps he simply doesn't have the funds to pay
> for new kit.
> 

I'm wondering if he lost his code as well.  That should not be the case, 
but something has to explain this.
The raid controller has to be replaced (cost: under 100 € to over 2000 
€) but I imagine the discs could still be useable.
This is still speculation and it would be good to know the facts.