++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[MotF Bane]

On second thought...

Dear industry assocations,

Please fuck off and die.

Sincerely,
America.

 

[MotF Bane]

Go with 5x3 (five 3.5" drives in three 5.25" bays) mobile racks. These will accept SAS/SATA drives and are hot swappable. If you use an intelligent raid host bus adapter you just swap the drive when you hear the warning whistle go off! The drive that's misbehaving will have a red light.

That sounds like a rather pricey solution.

 

[MotF Bane]

I have no idea how much porn is on the server, since the bulk of it is on the MIA drive.

The MIA drive also carries one of the copies of my personal data, and the lose of that bothers me more. Fortunately, I do have a copy of it on another drive.

 

[MotF Bane]

The personal data needs, oh, a couple weeks of dedicated effort to clean out duplications, unused/unwanted files, old programs, over a hundred thousand screenshots, and so much more. Right now, I have over 300 GB. My guess is, with proper trimming, that'll be under 40, most of it pictures.

 

[MotF Bane]

Games is just over 300. Programs in general, including OS's, seems to be around 400. Audio is just 200.

 

[MotF Bane]

I think television deserves its own 2TB drive, but I'm not buying a drive right now, not with the prices of them.

 

[MotF Bane]

So for now, I believe I'll expand the television overflow into the SD drive.

 

[Rubycon]

That sounds like a rather pricey solution.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/mobilerack/CSE-M35TQ.cfm

These run about $120 USD

 

[MotF Bane]

Powering down spare drive, time to go hook it up, and reboot the server.

Here goes nothing and everything.

 

[MotF Bane]

http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/mobilerack/CSE-M35TQ.cfm

These run about $120 USD

Once the drive has failed, it's too late. I'd be better served by spending the money on switching to a RAID 5/6 solution.

 

[Rubycon]

Fix it any way you can!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QihBIewyrY

 

[MotF Bane]

Rebooting.

 

[MotF Bane]

RDP logging on...

 

[MotF Bane]

Drive F has returned from the grave.

"Preparing to copy."

850GB from drive to drive via USB.

This is going to take a couple days.

Fuck.

 

[MotF Bane]

Still preparing. This is going to take a long time.

 

[MotF Bane]

I'm hoping to coax 2.5 years out of my server and primary computer. At that point, I hope to finally be graduating, preferably with a job, and then I'll be looking to move out.

So I'll take everything, sell all of it, and replace it with new upper mid-range hardware, low power server, et cetera.

 

[shortylickens]

God dammit!
I just pissed away 4 hours on TVtropes.
Fuck you internet, FUCK YOU!

 

[MotF Bane]

For data protection, I'll take an approach of someday wiping out tons of old junk, duplicate files, that sort of thing, cutting the total space used, and then swarm - tons of drives.

 

[MotF Bane]

God dammit!
I just pissed away 4 hours on TVtropes.
Fuck you internet, FUCK YOU!

The Internet.
It knows when you have shit to do.
It takes your needs, your drives, your motivations
and eats them alive.

 

[MotF Bane]

The copy has begun.

No time estimate provided.

 

[shortylickens]

For data protection, I'll take an approach of someday wiping out tons of old junk, duplicate files, that sort of thing, cutting the total space used, and then swarm - tons of drives.

 

[sdifox]

ni

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[sdifox]

narf

 

[MotF Bane]

Copying ongoing, still no time estimate provided. Now been on for about an hour, the colorful bar looks like about 10-15%.