The pictured hard drive failed and left its owner in bad shape. If anyone has an old disk sitting around that’s the same make and model, it might help up in data recovery.
IBM Deskstar DTLA-307045
The missing text in the overexposed area says “Deskstar.”
If you have one of these, please let me know. We could give you 10X what ebay would give (for one found locally and know to work). Or you could donate it because you pity the guy and have been in this same predicament. :)
My brother Jordan (A.K.A. jordy) and I have salvaged a motherboard or two with bad caps on it. It can be a sweet way to get a cheap desktop system (do *not* try this with your server). It doesn’t seem like MBs are plagued by bad CAPS like they were 4-5 years ago, but you still see them from time to time. Anyway, here is a sweet write-up on the whole process. It’s a good way to go if you like to tinker, feel good about saving $ and are good with a soldering iron.
The humble server that I use to host a few (11) web sites is getting updated. It’s not going to be that big of a deal (99% idle instead of 97% idle).
The big deal will be the addition of Xen, LVM and RAID. I’m thinking about setting up a small domU that will act as a firewall. It will also run Apache as a reverse proxy and Postfix as a transport relay to the domains that will get their own DomU (3 currently). Normally I would also have it run Asterisk to avoid NATing with SIP, but since I switched to IAX with my voice provider, I don’t think it will be necessary.
Anyway, the lights might go out for a little while. Don’t be alarmed.
The Open Source Motor Control (OSMC) project seems like just the fit for me. Cheap, Open hardware for hacking together a X,Y table and doing a little laser cutting :)
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