Uh oh

2021-01-30T17:41:54Z

Well, this is sub-optimal.

This is why I have mirrored drives. I've ordered a couple of replacements that I will pick up today or tomorrow. These are 10-year-old drives, and if one is failing, the other probably isn't that far behind. It could last another decade, or it could go next week. When atara's drives failed, they went in rapid succession and we almost lost all of her data. I managed to coax enough life out of one of them to salvage everything.

Since the price of storage has come down so much, I decided to expand a bit as well. Double the storage; double the catastrophe when it fails.

I've also ordered a new SSD for my boot drive. The one I am using is the same age as the hard disks, and it's only 256MB. It's been running at between 90% and 95% full for the past couple of years. I'm going to clone it over to a 1TB SSD, and once I get that booting up reliably, I'll work on backing up the data drives to their replacements.

It looks like my Sunday plans are laid out for me.

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and things went downhill from there

Uh oh