So in addition to my regular ongoing project to restore the old PC systems I’ve accumulated, I have a pair of new projects in the works for this weekend.
First, I have a pair of external hard drives with precious data on them that lack AC adaptors. Long story short, it’s cheaper to open the enclosures, remove the disk drives, and remount them in other enclosures than track down and pay for the uncommon type of power source the current enclosures require.
Second, I’m planning on assembling a RAID array (is adding -array to RAID redundant? Like, EXTRA redundant since RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks?) I’m just starting to wrap my head around the concept of RAID and I think a little hands-on experience would really help me out with this. I’m going to have to run to the local computer shop to pick up a RAID controller card (I don’t think any of my lab computers have this) and some cables, and potentially some cheap hard drives if I can find them. Pretty much all of my computers can handle at least two hard disk drives so a RAID 0 is quite feasible.
A Journey Into The Tech Field 