Playing ball with "W"

I've had a wide range of dreams recently and have not been logging them. This one is worth logging though. In my dream, it seemed like I was watching a U of I basketball game. Then, it seemed like I was playing in the game... and on my team was George Bush. At one point, I passed the ball to him, but he didn't make a clean catch. Somehow, the ball ended on his head, but he didn't know where the ball was. Finally it fell off of his head, but he still didn't know where the ball was. I was either thinking or saying to him, "Just listen to where the ball is bouncing..." but poor George, he still didn't know where the ball was. Anyway, it does remind me of what happened in real life to Danny Blammy in a basketball game at Uni High where he managed to have the ball hit him on the head 3 times consecutively... and was called for traveling. And our JV coach, Mr. Ball, tried to convince the ref in vain it was not traveling. Somehow I don't think one of my dreams would be as wild as that.

Rats!

The 1.6TB storage device (over 80% used) I was using (which was a Stardom Sohotank U7-4-B2) to archive my recorded shows is not working anymore. I’ve not had a chance to verify it’s only the hardware device and not the drives themselves which is not working. (I don’t even want to think that it may be the drives.)

_{Good news, it looks like all the data on the drives is ok.}

Anyway, so I’ve now ordered a 4TB storage device which supports RAID5, which means in theory, I should have 3TB of usable storage while still having complete recovery capabilities in case of a bad hard drive (just not two at the same time).

_{OK, it’s not much for looks, but anyway…}

However, RAID5 also means if something happens to the hardware, I would have no way of recovering the data except buying another storage device which supports a 4-drive RAID5 set up…

I decided not on the Drobo as someone had a bad experience losing all data using one… so although it may have been a fluke, it’s kind of sad when the device which is supposed to automatically provide redundant storage capability fails on you. I am hopeful that with future versions of Drobo, they’ll work out this flaw.

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