[NLRS] WA2VOI DISASTER

[KB0NLY]

The only bad thing about a RAID array is simply this, its in the computer... 
Can't count how many times someone thought they were safe with RAID and the 
computer took a lightning hit destroying the drives they were depending on 
saving them.

73,

Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ford Peterson" <ford at highmarks.com>
To: "'Donn Baker'" <wa2voi at mail.mninter.net>
Cc: <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 11:24 AM
Subject: RE: [NLRS] WA2VOI DISASTER


>
>
> Donn,
>
> I feel your pain.
>
> Earlier this month, my main tower took a direct lightning hit.  Destroyed
> everything!  My MKV is toast, my linear--toast.  The FM equipment is shot.
> All my computers, my phone system--toast.  Direct TV and Stereo are fried.
> No fire, but man did that baby create problems.  It appears to have 
> elevated
> voltage on the ground system.  Who knows how high-tens of thousands of 
> volts
> maybe?  The G6-270 dual band vertical at the top of that tower was 
> vaporized
> by the blast.
>
> I'm an accountant.  My office where I practice my craft is only 25' from 
> the
> hamshack.  My main computer was smoked by the network line, which was
> attached to a common Router.  The Cat5 going from the shack computer to 
> the
> hub connected to the router was fused open.  The hub was destroyed, as was
> the NIC in that computer, but the router was OK.  At the operating 
> position,
> the antenna ground found a lower impedance path back to the main 
> electrical
> panel where it jumped over to the phone line to seek a lower impedance
> ground at Embarq.  Was I backed up?  Needless to say, I paced the floor 
> for
> several days over concerns about thousands of client records buried in 
> that
> black box under the desk. (Ok I was mostly concerned about my billing
> records and personal bookkeeping.)
>
> I've been using a RAID I system here for years.  (R.edundant A.nd
> I.ndependent D.rive) It really paid off this time.  I was able to pull out
> one of the hard drives, insert it into a new box, and the mirror did it's
> magic.  Swap out the old disk for the new and it mirrored again.  I got a
> little balloon message from Bill Gates that read "The Operating System has
> detected operation on a substantially altered hardware configuration.  You
> have 3 days to click on the following link to re-authorize your copy of 
> XP."
> I clicked on the link and 3 seconds later the message came back "Thank you
> for using Microsoft."
>
> It still took 9 calendar days to be up and running--mostly to procure a 
> new
> computer and test.  The new Intel boards come with RAID 1 configuration
> right on the motherboard.  The total cost of that insurance policy is the
> cost of a second identical drive.  The new 250GB drive was what?  Maybe
> $125?  RAID I is by no means a complete backup system, but I was grateful
> that it worked as slick as it did.  The alternative would be to rebuild 
> and
> spend weeks reconfiguring hundreds of applications and data sets.  What a
> joy to simply turn on the box and be up and running as if nothing ever
> happened.
>
> The story about shack is no where near a 'happy ending.'  It's all shot.
> Very disheartening to say the least.
>
> Ford-N0FP
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nlrs-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:nlrs-bounces at mailman.qth.net] 
> On
> Behalf Of Donn Baker
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 8:00 PM
> To: NLRS at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [NLRS] WA2VOI DISASTER
>
>
>
> Well, maybe a bit over dramatic, but still....
>
> I had a TOTAL disk crash over night Jun 27-Jun28.  This included, of
> course, my mail and address book.
>
> Basically, if you sent me mail yesterday and I didn't acknowledge it, most
> likely its gone forever.  If it was (is) important, please re-send. 
> Sorry.
>
> Anyone know of some place that does data recovery from dead disks ?
>
> 73 Donn
> WA2VOI/0
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