So if you were wondering why there hasn't been any new content here in a bit...

I’m moving around disks at home. See, I was getting this vague feeling that my collection of disks…especially the pair of disks that I got in the wake of my last hard drive crash… was getting a little old. And the “CPU overheating” siren on my Linux box went off, so I decided to take that as a sign that I need to shake up my hardware configuration before stuff started smoking.

So I started out with my Linux box (which contains the master copy of this site that I then copy over to the wireheadarts.com server to push a new version of the site) and set up a new Western Digital 320 gig drive in it.

Which, as soon as I was finished and started “moving in” to the server, decided to suffer infant mortality.

So I had to get a replacement drive fairly quickly. It’s a good thing I took all of the content that I couldn’t reconstruct from my other machines and backed it up to another computer. I also decided to solve this question once and for all and generate a table of hard disk lifetimes, so I’d have a better guide as to how old drives were, where I discovered that my drives are actually a lot older than I thought they were.

The total household storage that is online has gone past 2 terabytes at this point.

Lesson to you all: Keep backups! I’ve got some great software that’s already in use at home to back up an image archive and one of these days, you’ll be able to use it too…