After many months of sitting on my desk with the thought that the drive would miraculously start to function again, I have decided to ships it bad from whence it came. My 400+ GB of data is now officially gone .

Well folks, we will be building one storage server over the next few months, with the purchasing of parts from various locations, else one site if the figures work out for the best.

The OS will be Suns’ OpenSolaris, and two file systems will be in-use, one of course being ZFS for stuff that changes a lot.

Here here (or is it cheer cheer) to open source. Sweet file system here I come; Giveth me the money to buy such a sweet system oh great one.