My whole life crashed on me again.<\/p>\n
No, my wife is safe and she’s still enjoying her weekend at Batu Pahat, and I still have a job and aspirations and family and stuff.<\/p>\n
It’s only, the single piece of fragile hardware that I depend for almost everything in my life has given way. I have no one to blame, it’s my indecisive actions that led to this.<\/p>\n
My 2nd hard disk drive failed to be start :'(<\/p>\n
All my life’s work, my identity, my collections, etc. in it, now awaits the rescue of either the supernatural, or data recoverers. I’m still hoping the former will happen before I picked up the phone.<\/p>\n
All because of my “excellent” choice of Seagate Barracuda, not 1 but 2 _exactly_ similar models with _exactly_ the same firmware problem.<\/p>\n
The only good news in all these was that, while rummaging through the pile of hardware receipts I learned that I bought the drive on 13 September 08, and it comes with 5 year warranty, which buys me 1 more year in case I really need to activate the warranty.<\/p>\n
But warranties doesn’t give data.<\/p>\n
It was already setup the smart way – RAID and all. 2 500GB disk storing 500GB of data.<\/p>\n
Last year this happened, and by some weird luck, after replacing the power component and randomly pushing cables in and out of slots, I managed to get ONE of the disk to boot. <\/p>\n
That must have been the greatest hint that I need to get everything out and move to a new set of RAID. I half heartedly started searching for a NAS, but the search didn’t get anywhere, and I forgotten about it after a while.<\/p>\n
Night after night I simply clicked away the warning that my RAID broke. <\/p>\n
I even knew the problem about this 7200.11 HDD bricking itself by locking itself up. And I even found the firmware upgrade I needed to do to the disk to prevent this from happening. What more, the last tragedy gave me a chance to fix the surviving disk.<\/p>\n
And I passed it up!<\/p>\n
How many other things in my life needs fixing, and generating huge amounts of warnings, and yet I’m sitting on it, to one day watch it blow at my face?<\/p>\n
A lonely night to reflect. I hope you can reflect as well, if not, at least do a backup. My idiotic backups are done on the same disk different partitions (so smart for a CS grad from the greatest schools in the universe) because it was convenient.<\/p>\n
How many other things in my life is going to break without recourse because of some unwarranted laziness on my part?<\/p>\n
Especially I have 2 other laptops sitting around, and a paid hosting space with vast amount of unused online space!<\/p>\n
Maybe that’s how wake up calls are given. The hard way. Maybe my life really needs fixing.<\/p>\n
What do I need to give for the PC to work again when the sun rises tomorrow? A call to the experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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