I feel your pain my friend. I am glad you had backups. I lost almost every model I built between 2007 and 2009 because I had a striped drive fail. Many of those models only live as renders in the archives of this site. Several of those models were major efforts and portfolio quality work and I still get ill thinking of their loss. One thing is for sure I will NEVER stripe another drive! I lost nearly 1TB of data!
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton, 1675