Not everyone on this forum is still waiting to hit puberty. Some of us have been in the computer industry for longer than some of the self-proclaimed 'experts' in these forums have been alive. My first job was in an environmentally controlled room the size of a basketball court, with a subfloor, containing rows of mainframes with paper card printers & readers, plus dozens of tape drives the size of clothes washing machines containing 10.5" magnetic tape reels for archival purposes, with a recent upgrade of eight 40MB hard drives the size of clothes dryers. It looked like a large laundromat. That was an era where potential employees had to take a written test to prove they were fluent in binary, BASIC & EBCDIC (or ASCII), just to get an interview. Many years later I worked in the engineering department for a major manufacturer of network servers at the time that this game was being created, so I am quite aware of what SASI, SCSI & even RAID are used for, plus how many decades each have been around.
My assumption was NOT based on the actual technology that was available at the time said computer was purchased. I made my previous assumption based on the statements provided by Means, plus no power protection & extremely old equipment showing a lack of proper technical knowledge &/or care on the part of Funcom's employee(s) that are responsible for IT. Means being told that a "loss of power caused a fan to fail" is a prime example. The loss of power did not cause the fan to fail. A power surge or a bad bearing caused the fan to fail. My previous posts referenced how some of you are blindly assuming that despite the fact that they did not have the foresight to consider power protection, they had the foresight to consider mirroring the data storage?
Feel free to find words in this post to take out of context too. I made an attempt to explain any possible confusion, real or imaginary. Have fun.