Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, bonz_lizard.

Not that I'm paranoid or nothin...

But I'm moving everything off the baby RAID 5 drive to a backup drive, and then I'm going to yank the two partitions, repartition it as one large partition, and then format it. I've got backups. I was looking at partition software last night, but I've had some unintended fun with Norton's software (which says in really fine print that it doesn't work with RAID drives -- they ain't kidding, by the way). I noticed last night that the drives I based it on, Maxtor 120 GB drives appear to have gone to the obsolete junkyard in the sky. They wuz the sweetspot in that sweet by and by when I first built the RAID. Nowadays, motherboards with RAID controllers are cheaper than most of the RAID controllers out there. Go figure. And Serial ATA (SATA) has pretty much wiped the field. Parallel ATA (PATA or IDE) drives are still around for legacy hardware. But like all hardware, what's old is old, and this electronic hardware turns not to antiques, but to junk for all the junkyards of Asia.

Testing...

It's back!

The new, larger, freshly formated Baby RAID drive. I'm moving files, or rather Windows is. It's shocking to see things like 198 minutes on a file copy, and know that it's underestimating the time. It's already down to "S," so it's going fine. No big rush this way. The repartitioning's done, and the format finished. It can copy away into the night.

WoW MSP to Paris

Nonstop. Coming April 8, 2008. Who knew?