Hardware Failure

Hardware fails from time to time. And, unlike software, it can’t be fixed by typing or scriptic incantation. One of the harddrives in my primary computer failed. Fortunately, I set up that machine with 2 500GB drives as a mirrored RAID. So, while replacing one of the drives is quite a hassle, nothing seems to have been lost.

Simultaneously, my Terastation seems to have malfunctioned. This is much more problematic. It’s got 4 250GB drives arranged as a RAID5. When I first got the machine, I spent quite some time hacking on it, so that it now has ssh. Good thing too, because that’s now the only way to talk to the machine during a 5 minute window before it automatically powers off. I’m going to punt solving this issue until I’m settled in at Irvine.