My sister showed me this song written by The Trews, honouring the fallen Canadian soldiers. Sadly, I don’t have iTunes so I couldn’t actually buy the single so I guess I’ll have to find a hard copy of it somewhere. Still, I threw a couple bucks at herofund.ca. Proceeds of the sale of the song go to a tuition fund for the kids of fallen soldiers.
About 7 years ago, I put together a file server that would eventually be my general storage medium for various forms of media and any other storage I needed. I decided to use four drives and make a RAID 5 array. I figured in case a drive failed, I’d still have the parity drive to rebuild the RAID. The RAID has survived two boot drive failures and a motherboard failure. Well, good ol’ Murphy’s Law sprung up over the weekend and two drives have decided to kick the bucket, so rebuilding the RAID is out of the question. Fortunately, the non-recoverable data (ie my pictures) have long since been backed up. The rest is just a pain in the ass to re-obtain.
Given that hard drives have become ludicrously cheap (I think the sweet spot is like $100 for a terabyte these days), I should ask you readers out there what kind of setup you guys use or what you’d recommend. 2 drives in a RAID 1? Build another RAID 5? All-in-one NAS?
