{"id":92,"date":"2005-10-03T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T05:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=92"},"modified":"2007-08-11T12:32:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T02:32:54","slug":"humpty-dumpty-sat-on-a-raid-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/10\/03\/humpty-dumpty-sat-on-a-raid-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Humpty Dumpty sat on a RAID drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I mislaid some data this week. About 60 GB worth. No, it’s okay. There’s no reason to panic. In fact, I am happy that I remained unpanicked the entire time. I was disappointed and frustrated, but not panicked.<\/p>\n

I knew the data was never lost<\/em> – just temporarily mislaid. It was always being stored safely on the magnetic surface of the disk – in fact replicated on two disks – but I just wasn’t sure where it was.<\/p>\n

The sad part is that I got in this situation because I was trying to be good. I was trying to reconfigure my machine to use RAID to keep my data safe, and I ended up leaving it shipwrecked on an unknown island in a magnetic ocean.<\/p>\n

The cause was a user ignorance – the steps I took made perfect sense from my conceptual model of the way RAID controllers work – but clearly my conceptual model didn’t match reality.<\/p>\n

I’ve recovered all the files on an assortment of media, and now I am just in the process of putting Humpty back together again.<\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n

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