SlashReality's Journal: I'm finally one of "them"

Of the 2 kinds of people that exist when it comes to data loss; there's those who haven't lost any data, and those who backup religiously.
Up until last night, I've never lost any significant data that I was aware of. Sure I had the odd floppy go bad. An old school assignment, CD-Rs that have been laying around forever with a *nix distro I'd never think to install because it's so old. Or maybe files in an old digital backup that I had forgotten about and no longer needed or had any interest in keeping.
Well, I lost the RAID on my Video server. 1 disk out of a 2 drive RAID 0 array. And all the data is gone. I noticed the share wasn't appearing as normal, and today I checked the software configuration and noted neither disk was showing up. A quick check in the BIOS confirmed the array was dead, and only 1 disk is appearing as being recognized.
So I deleted the array, attempted to recreate and it's only showing 1 disk on the second channel, and no disk on the first channel (should be 1). Alas, I fear even if the drive is recoverable, and/or any data remains it will be impossible to rejoin them back into the same RAID and dredge up any lost data.
The kicker is I ordered a terrabyte drive this weekend so that I could backup the videos and audio from my network share servers.