The drive crash could not have been avoided, because it happened. Speculating about this is pointless unless you want to write an alternate history novel. Until it happened, it wasn't a concern. It did happen, so now it is a concern.
What lesson aren't we learning? If you think there's a mistake in our goals of improving infrastructure, please let me know.
I'm not really sure what you're saying. You want me to disclose every detail of our financial information, so you can give us a precise donation goal? Sorry, but I'm not asking for armchair accountants here. What we need right now is to quickly rebuild our reserve cash pool so we can fix our infrastructure. We also need advice people who are very knowledgeable about running high-load webservers, because I don't know anything
If you have either of these things, I'm all ears right now.