A crashed off-site RAID drive
December 17th 2009
Here are some more observations on using RAID on the Mac OS X, particularly in terms of off-site storage, terminology, and upgrading. Here is a photo of my former off-site hard drive:
It’s been sitting in an office desk drawer for a couple of months, and the time came to cycle it back into the RAID set. But when I tried to spin it up, I was greeted by a disappointing rattle, and the drive didn’t come on-line. The drive, a WD 7500 AAKS, was 14 months old when it died. In the photo above, I’ve removed the case cover in preparation for an autopsy.
