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One of my mates from a former job when I actually did technical things for a living read this confessional article "The RAID Tower Is Making Beeps I Really Don't Want To Hear" and mentioned his backup scheme is RAID 0 backed up to another RAID 0. For what he's using his storage for, it makes perfect sense to me and there is no *ONE RIGHT WAY* that works for everyone. :) For the non-nerds…

After yesterday's harrowing episode of "The RAID Tower Is Making Beeps I Really Don't Want To Hear", we finally got to the point of the recovery where it was time to swap out the old 4TB hard drive (new paperweight!) that had failed with one that was presumably more interested in being a valuable team member in a RAID 5 array. There was a slightly scary moment at the start when the RAID controller was…

Want to know what a very scary sound is here in The Nerdery? A beeping sound coming from the main hard drive tower indicating that the controller has found a fault in one of the eight drives that form two four-drive RAID-5 arrays. It's a very distinctive tone that is very different from the two uninterruptible power supplies that protect the laptop and everything hanging off of it from Carolina Flash and Flicker's occasional interruptions…