July 27, 2006
I didn't want to do this tonight
Bad thunderstorm this evening. There was a lightning strike just outside my house, but it doesn't look like anything was hit.
Except for the power supply on my parents' computer. Fried that thing like an Oreo at a county fair.
Normally, this would be a bit annoying, but nothing all that terrible for me. I'd probably wind up fixing it, but I wouldn't normally feel compelled to immediately drive to the nearest parts dealer for a new PSU, praying to the silicon gods that please, please, keep the RAID intact and don't lose any data.
Why, you ask, did this compulsion come over me? Because just installed a new hard drive on my computer and was using my parents new RAID array as temporary storage for my 160GB of media. When things went down I had maybe half of it back, if that.
Fortunately, it seems as if I'm going to be able to get everything off. The only thing aside from the power supply that looks like it went is the NIC. Unfortunately, the NIC is integrated, so who knows what else on the mobo is gone. For the moment, it looks as if things are okay. So tomorrow, I pick up a NIC and we cross our fingers.
Got to love the family tech support.
