I killed a HD….
I bought some new light fixtures today for the downstairs basement/family room. There were these horrible 1970’s hanging things with the chains running across the ceiling in there, one of which had already died a while ago. We have been trying to get Isaac to spend more time down there, because all of his bigger toys are there and it just makes things easier. Well he hates it and we finally clued in that it was probably because it was just dark.
So today I spent $100 at Loews and bought some new light fixtures. So what does this have to-do with killing a drive? Well I managed to turn off the wrong circuit and killed my office rather then the family room. Oops.
I was a little annoyed that the drive died until I yanked it out and realized it was over five years old now and was only a 80G drive. Five years on a drive running 24/7 isn’t so bad and it was one of the crappy Maxtor’s. The good news was that I ran my weekly full backups early this week and have a complete clone of the drive as of late Thursday night. The drive just holds “shared” stuff, things like music archives, movies and TV shows. Nothing which is updated more then once every couple weeks really. So I just need to purchase a new drive and drop it in.
The biggest problem will be finding a IDE drive, since this box doesn’t have SATA. I don’t want to deal with adding a add-in SATA card and figuring out how to get Ubuntu to talk to it. Hopefully Fry’s will still have something available.
So the big question is why didn’t the UPS kick in and save the box? That is a very good question and it appears that the UPS died a while ago and I forgot to replace it. So tomorrow it is HD replacement and new UPS for the server box.