After my desperate disk situation came to a head yesterday with 8GB (out of 2250) free space, I sucked it up and paid for a new ReadyNAS. I went with another NV+, this time with 4x1000GB DeskStar drives for a total of 3TB of usable space with a RAID 5-equivalent level of protection against data loss.

I’ve previously noted with horror that I’ve exhausted most of the 1TB of RAID 5 storage on aenea, with a deluge of video and picture files.

This week I’m in Colorado for my brother’s graduation, and have taken the time to select and order a new NAS solution.

I ended up selecting the Infrant ReadyNAS NV+. I ordered the 1GB RAM version with no disks from eAegis for about $700, and four 750GB Baracuda SATA drives from newEgg for under $1200. Once I put it all together, I’ll have 2.25 TB of available storage capacity.

A while back I suffered a power failure in my townhouse that screwed up aenea’s software RAID volume. I swore I’d put her on an UPS so it wouldn’t happen again. And yet, last night, it did.

So, this morning (a Sunday morning during which I was looking forward to beating ejabberd into submission) I awoke to find my file store screwed to the wall. I frantically searched about for the grime-encrusted floppy where I put my custom-compiled HighPoint RocketRaid driver for FreeBSD 6.0-amd64. I finally found it and was about to boot it, only to run across my post from the last time it happened, which refreshed my memory on the coping mechanism and the glorious absence of using an external driver floppy therein.