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This morning while I’m still asleep my wife goes “Chris your computer is making a noise…” and after repeating herself ten times I finally comprehend what she’s saying and start listening. Sure enough there was a loud clicking noise coming from my server in the other room. I figured I had just lost a hard drive but I wasn’t worried because I have a spare that’s supposed to pop into action when this happens. So I hit the power button once and listen as it shuts itself down cleanly.

Looking back I probably should have been more cautious but hey, I was still 98% asleep. When I finally got a chance to look at it, I find out the spare wasn’t actually added to my storage pool. Oops, my bad. Well I still wasn’t worried because my storage pool (all my really important data) was still up and rockin’: Read the rest of this entry »