Moving parts suck

Where can I find a file server with about 500 gigs of solid-state storage, cheap?

I get all tingly just thinking about how freakin fantastic it would be to have a server that was immune to hard drive crashes, and so tremendously fast that the users would never complain (ha!).

Speaking of hard drive crashes... our one month old Snap Server 4100 lost a drive tonight. It's now running on three drives with no redundancy.

It could run like this for years, or minutes. No way to tell. I'm hoping for at least a week because I probably won't see a new drive from Quantum til Monday.

I found out tonight what drives it uses: Quantum (duh) FireballP AS60.0. Some of you may recall that particular drive model is a little "funky" (and not in a good way).

If I knew I could just stick any ol' 60-gig drive in there I'd buy a drive locally and just slap it in there. (Of course we don't have a cold spare, silly.)

While I wait for a replacement drive I'll re-sync the data (85 gigs) back to the original server, where I haven't deleted anything (because paranoia is good); I will also cross my fingers.

Posted by rc at April 04, 2002 09:34 PM