The Perversity of Inanimate Objects

[billroper]

Because it is two days until WindyCon, I should have expected that the hard drive in my main home machine -- the one with all the interesting data on it, including the Girl Genius presentation that I spent two hours working on last night -- would pick this moment to fail. *sigh*

Fortunately, that hard drive is part of a mirrored pair, so I've recovered the presentation from the working drive and will shut this down in just a minute. Then it's off to Fry's to buy another drive to replace the dead one.

I didn't have the hour to spare, but I surely don't have the data to spare.

Comments

[sffilk.livejournal.com]

That stinks.

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's just annoying. Like my finding out the "Delete Files" button in EasyTAG REALLY deletes my OGG files, doesn't just take them out of it's list of files. It's recursive too, and was happily deleting ALL of my music. But that's what god made backups -for-.

Sorry about the wasted time, but glad you had the disk mirrored.

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

The new NAS?

[billroper]

No, the NAS still appears to be working just fine. It's the mirrored drive in my couple of years old build it yourself computer that decided to croak tonight.

The new drive is in place and busily copying the data from the old drive, so with luck all will be well.

[kyril.livejournal.com]

Was the drive under warranty? Usually I've had good enough luck that the drives are obsolete by the time they fail, and I pick up a new pair or pair-and-spare. But if not, at least hopefully you'll have a spare once that one comes back from warranty.

I've also been lucky enough that when one dies under warranty, the other(s) don't go shortly thereafter...though maybe relegating them to a less well-used purpose extends their life a bit.

[billroper]

I believe the drive is under warranty. Getting the warranty honored will be the trick. :)

[poltr1]

Murphy's Law strikes again! :-( I swear, Murphy's Law must be in the design spec of every hard drive.

Yay for having the foresight to have mirrored hard drives (and the $$$ to afford a new hard drive)!

[madfilkentist]

Now you've got "Hard Drive Calypso" in my head again.