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mikeytherat

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9. Still down, and they've even removed the lame "we'll be up and running any time" splash page.

Reply to Kber (Reply #8)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 10:18 AM

Feb 2013

Probably because of the whole "we're trying to Frankenstein a SCSI backup server" which, aside from being a load of gibberish, begs the questions, "With all that money, where are the backups? And why not just buy a new server?"

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