Drives me crazy
Jan. 19th, 2009 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greatbearI've really been happy to put some of these long-running projects around here into a completed state. One of them as been the LAN cabling, multi-room speaker wiring and components, control cables and coax and such, all run through walls, attic space and basement, with the LAN stuff converging in the Basement Lab of Mayhem where the servers sit and do our bidding. I wanted to get all of this done in preparation for the new home theater stuff. I had a slight snag when the power supply died in the home theater PC, but corrected that with a new PS unit. The next step was to rip out all the old network stuff, tidy up the tables and floor area, and put the domain server in it's permanent new home. After doing this and reconnecting stuff, I thought it was time to make my latest backup of the music library that I had been sorting, renaming and organizing into folders, since my last backup was way back on the 2nd. I notice that one of the eight drives on the server is absent, and my attempts at getting it to mount were all in vain. Guess which drive it just had to be?
There goes two weeks of work and about 50 gigabytes of data.
I have all this data intact on the original, multiple locations, but having to go through the thousands of files again just plain sucks. The drive, a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black, is toast. It's a screech and click fest upon powering up, and it gives up after about 30 seconds of seizures. I got these drives because they were highly rated. So much for that. I had an extra drive mounted in an external enclosure to use as a backup drive removed from any particular computer. It went in the failed drive's place and I will replace the one in the enclosure and get one more as a spare, since it looks like I might need it. The data from the domain server was also to be copied onto the bigass media/file server with all the redundant drive arrays as well, since now the LAN can handle it.
You'd think I'd learn after being burned just like this in the past.
There goes two weeks of work and about 50 gigabytes of data.
I have all this data intact on the original, multiple locations, but having to go through the thousands of files again just plain sucks. The drive, a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black, is toast. It's a screech and click fest upon powering up, and it gives up after about 30 seconds of seizures. I got these drives because they were highly rated. So much for that. I had an extra drive mounted in an external enclosure to use as a backup drive removed from any particular computer. It went in the failed drive's place and I will replace the one in the enclosure and get one more as a spare, since it looks like I might need it. The data from the domain server was also to be copied onto the bigass media/file server with all the redundant drive arrays as well, since now the LAN can handle it.
You'd think I'd learn after being burned just like this in the past.
