I was at CW picking up my shiny new NON-O visa this afternoon.

While downstairs to make copies, noticed the Bangkok Bank office was dark and taped off.

 

An employee told me their server was down for repairs and would be back up in 3-4 days.

The lady in the copy shop said there was a fire in the server room earlier.

 

The Laksi Station branch is nearby for bank letters.

Shows you just how badly their network is. I would expect dual servers with Raid 5 storage but probably just on a normal computer.

Even if they had dual servers with Raid storage setup, if the room and its associated electrical wiring was damaged "and/or the cause of the fire" I expect they will be completely reworking/rewiring the server area before they fire-up/plug-in their server(s) again. 

2 hours ago, Photoguy21 said:

Shows you just how badly their network is. I would expect dual servers with Raid 5 storage but probably just on a normal computer.

Clean up after smoke  damage and checking up

8 minutes ago, Pib said:

Even if they had dual servers with Raid storage setup, if the room and its associated electrical wiring was damaged "and/or the cause of the fire" I expect they will be completely reworking/rewiring the server area before they fire-up/plug-in their server(s) again. 

I agree, but it would be surprising if they had any servers that store data locally at all. I would expect their "server" room to contain nothing except some networking equipment and a firewall appliance with built-in VPN for access to the (remote) servers. Storing data at individual branches just complicates security and backup. You are right, though. After a fire, there is probably a lot of necessary electrical and network rewiring needed.

Ah the old school mentality, raid X and a/b power, maybe even a UPS on the floor of the half rack..

12 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Clean up after smoke  damage and checking up

The servers would not normally be kept in an operational environment. Just a distribution switch.

53 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

The servers would not normally be kept in an operational environment. Just a distribution switch.

Absolutely though, on reflection, there might be one minor exception. Many organisations keep the CCTV footage locally. Whether you would call that a "server" is debatable though.

3 minutes ago, BritTim said:

Absolutely though, on reflection, there might be one minor exception. Many organisations keep the CCTV footage locally. Whether you would call that a "server" is debatable though.

Agreed, a lot do keep CCTV locally but usually back it up to a central off-site location

I happened to be at CW immigration today and when I walked downstairs where the bank is a person can easily smell that "burnt" smell around the bank.  It was still closed/roped off and a half dozen or so people inside working to cleanup.  One lady was trying to dry out some paperwork so maybe automatic sprinklers went off.    Through the glass windows I snapped a picture of the equipment room where apparently the fire was........it's more of a network equipment and main panel circuit breaker room.  

 

Has the branch re-opened this week?

1 hour ago, John Drake said:

Has the branch re-opened this week?

I called the first number below....they said yes they are open....reopened today/8 Aug.