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At this point in time, the Thay PW server is down and an attempt to retrieve data from the dead server hard drive is underway. As there have been numerous people who mentioned they would be willing to help financially, I have created a PayPal account, listed at the bottom of this post, to which you can donate if you like. I first want to stress that any donation is purely voluntary and entirely your decision to make! Any and everyone who plays here is welcome back when the server returns, regardless of whether or not you are able to contribute financially.
Those who donate will have my sincere gratitude, but I want to set the expectation up front that, as a matter of principle, I or the DMs cannot do anything special for you in-game. Money raised in this campaign will directly benefit everyone, and I hope anyone who gives will simply expect to ‘feel good’ for helping out the entire Thayan community. I will not be publicly posting who has donated or how much they donated but if you wish, you are free to mention it here yourself though. At the end of this little campaign I will provide general details about how many people donated and the total amount given.
If you decide to donate now, the money you give will go to two purposes:
1. Attempting to retrieve data off the dead hard drive.
This requires sending the drive off, which carries a non-refundable fee of $149.99. if data can be recovered, an additional $379 is charged. Total cost, if data recover is successful, would come to $529.98. I cannot justify spending that much of my own money on NWN data recovery when point #2 below is needed as well. So donations will first be used to offset this cost. If I can at least get enough to cover the majority of the cost of data recovery, I’ll proceed with this option.
2. Purchasing a new hard drive for the server.
If there is donated money remaining after the recovery of data, or if I don’t get enough donations to cover at least a good portion of the cost of the recovery of data decide not to go that route, whatever funds remain will go to the purchase of a new hard drive for the server. One needs to be researched and purchased that is meant to handle a high amount of I/O over a long period of time.
If there are any computer hardware experts in the community, PM me your recommendations.
While I do not want to rush people into a decision to donate, please understand that time is of the essence right now. In a worst case scenario, the dead drive will need to be sent off to try and recover data, and in that case it will around $600. I really want to decide if this is a route to take before I leave on my anniversary vacation on Sunday, August 31. If this is not decided before then, I will be unable to send the disk off for full-blown expensive recovery until Sept 11 at the earliest, and then there will likely be another 1-3 week delay as it is being worked on. I *really* don’t want the server to be offline for that amount of time. But either way, if it looks like I may end up carrying most of the cost for data recovery in either scenario, it will not occur since the priority for me is to purchase a new hard drive if I must decide between these two options.
So in closing, if you are most interested in trying to get back data recovered from the hard drive, please donate soon. Every dollar/euro/pound/peso in that account before Office Max closes on Saturday at 9:00 PM Central is a vote for doing whatever it takes to try and recover the data on the dead drive. Otherwise, your funds will still go to good use in getting the server a new, improved hard drive.
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DONATIONS NO LONGER REQUESTED. THANKS TO ALL WHO DID CONTRIBUTE DURING THIS CAMPAIGN.
Those who donate will have my sincere gratitude, but I want to set the expectation up front that, as a matter of principle, I or the DMs cannot do anything special for you in-game. Money raised in this campaign will directly benefit everyone, and I hope anyone who gives will simply expect to ‘feel good’ for helping out the entire Thayan community. I will not be publicly posting who has donated or how much they donated but if you wish, you are free to mention it here yourself though. At the end of this little campaign I will provide general details about how many people donated and the total amount given.
If you decide to donate now, the money you give will go to two purposes:
1. Attempting to retrieve data off the dead hard drive.
This requires sending the drive off, which carries a non-refundable fee of $149.99. if data can be recovered, an additional $379 is charged. Total cost, if data recover is successful, would come to $529.98. I cannot justify spending that much of my own money on NWN data recovery when point #2 below is needed as well. So donations will first be used to offset this cost. If I can at least get enough to cover the majority of the cost of data recovery, I’ll proceed with this option.
2. Purchasing a new hard drive for the server.
If there is donated money remaining after the recovery of data, or if I don’t get enough donations to cover at least a good portion of the cost of the recovery of data decide not to go that route, whatever funds remain will go to the purchase of a new hard drive for the server. One needs to be researched and purchased that is meant to handle a high amount of I/O over a long period of time.
If there are any computer hardware experts in the community, PM me your recommendations.
While I do not want to rush people into a decision to donate, please understand that time is of the essence right now. In a worst case scenario, the dead drive will need to be sent off to try and recover data, and in that case it will around $600. I really want to decide if this is a route to take before I leave on my anniversary vacation on Sunday, August 31. If this is not decided before then, I will be unable to send the disk off for full-blown expensive recovery until Sept 11 at the earliest, and then there will likely be another 1-3 week delay as it is being worked on. I *really* don’t want the server to be offline for that amount of time. But either way, if it looks like I may end up carrying most of the cost for data recovery in either scenario, it will not occur since the priority for me is to purchase a new hard drive if I must decide between these two options.
So in closing, if you are most interested in trying to get back data recovered from the hard drive, please donate soon. Every dollar/euro/pound/peso in that account before Office Max closes on Saturday at 9:00 PM Central is a vote for doing whatever it takes to try and recover the data on the dead drive. Otherwise, your funds will still go to good use in getting the server a new, improved hard drive.
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DONATIONS NO LONGER REQUESTED. THANKS TO ALL WHO DID CONTRIBUTE DURING THIS CAMPAIGN.