Re-birth
After spending several days trying to work without my computer and while working out a solution for how to fix things and get myself back up and running the rebith has begun.
As is usually the case when something drastic goes wrong, new hardware is required. In this case I have chosen to install RAID on my machine - this means using a card in the PC that writes all the information onto two identical hard drives in real time, mirroring everything on the drive, thus creating a carbon copy of what is on one drive on the other. The advantage of doing this means that should one of these drives die, you have a completely up to date copy of all your data on the other drive. You can even unplug one of them while the conmputer is running and the other one will just carry on, almost as if nothing has happened. Very useful.
To make sure I have enough disk space I have purchased two 250GB drives, which should be ample space for now. Obviously I only get 250GB because on is a ‘backup’ of the other, but that should be loads as I already have a 30GB USB drive and plan on converting my old 200GB IDE drive into a USB on too. Got the case to do this delivered today along with the new drives, a nice shiny new keyboard and another 512 of RAM. Sorted.
So now I’m installing the RAID card and drives, it’s taking a while to set the drives up, due to their size….but hopefully once it’s done my computer will return, bigger, better and stronger! I’ll also have a fool proof backup system without having to remember toback stuff up every day.
Today is Thursday and on Saturday Scrat play our first gig. We have been rehearsing ‘from scratch’ for this since December last year and I really can’t wait. It’s been a long and winding road from Dicko never having sung in front of anyone other than himself, let alone through a microphone and a PA…to now. We are going to rock Walsall like it’s never been rocked before! There is a lot of nervous anticipation in the camp, but I’m hopeful we can pull it off without any problems.
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