Something like that happened to me. I had several TB of data on a RAID10 array on an LSI MegaRAID controller. A nearby lightning strike took out the server. And

Something like that happened to me. I had several TB of data on a RAID10 array on an LSI MegaRAID controller. A nearby lightning strike took out the server. And the server manufacturer had gone out of business. I had backups of the data itself. But I'd been doing lots of data massaging, and didn't have enough storage to keep copies of every step. Anyway, so I bought a couple new servers. One to replace the dead one, to be setup with SQL Server. And a low-end one that would accept the controller from the old server. I just left the drives in their cage, and jury rigged power and data connections. And it worked.