Captain Packrat (captpackrat) wrote,
Captain Packrat
captpackrat
  • Mood: relieved
  • Music: Nothing but the wonderful sound of a functioning server

When good drives go bad...

Woke up this morning to the sound of one of the hard drives in my server going click-clunk click-clunk click-clunk. I was barely able to shut Windows down.  When I tried to check out the drive in the BIOS, it had dissappeared.   Great...

Fortunately I was using a RAID array, so I ran down to Fry's, picked up a new drive, slapped it in, rebuilt the mirror, and the system was back up and running in less than 2 hours with no data lost.    Yay!  Much relief.

Even better, at the checkout I found the drive I'd selected had a $60 rebate on it, slicing the price in half.   Wooo!

Tags: geekery
Subscribe

  • Lentil soup

    I use split red lentils to make this dish. They cook very quickly and don't have to be soaked. You should pick through them first, however, to…

  • Pics

    LiveJournal really messed up the gallery. It's a royal pain in the ass to upload and post images now. Clicky on any of these to see the full…

  • But fruit flies like a banana

    A recent Wii Everybody Votes Channel poll asked whether people eat bananas by peeling them a little at a time, or all at once. Me: Who peels a…

  • Post a new comment

    Error

    Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal

    switch
    default userpic

    Your reply will be screened

    Your IP address will be recorded 

    Help
  • 0 comments