Losing my main hard drive to a mechanical fault recently (and having to pay lots of money to have it professionally recovered) was the final push needed to shell out some cash and get myself setup with a RAID configuration to protect all my data.
Having decided on RAID 6 and knowing that I wanted upto 8 drives to be protected I did some reading around and went for the Adaptec 3805 unified serial (SAS/SATA) RAID controller.
Originally I had planned on kitting myself out with six 1.5TB Seagate drives (ST31500341AS), and although these weren’t in the compatibility list for the controller I had hoped they’d be ok. Luckily I checked with Adaptec and received this suprisingly detailed reply:
The new 1.5 TB drives from Seagate are currently under compatibility testing with several of our controllers, but currently are classified as unsupported. Until this testing is complete, we cannot recommend the use of these drives with any of our current controllers. The drive’s firmware appears to be incompatible with many of our controllers and in many cases, although the drives are detected, the array may not be able to be created properly or there can be behavioral issues with these drives. At this point, we woul recommend using drives listed in the compatibility report for this controller at: http://www.adaptec.com/NR/rdonlyres/154B1035-A97E-4E5B-9558-68E597C7E7E6/0/20081_ARCSASCompatibilityReport_030708_3x05_3085.pdf
So at the time of writing, unfortunately the Seagate ST31500341AS drives are not compatible with Adaptec 3805 RAID controllers. I think I’ll have to fill my case up with 1TB Samsung spinpoints instead…
I stumbled across Rai about a year ago now whilst browsing flickr.com. Now there are many quality photographers on this site, and Rai is no exception… but the thing that really made him stand out from crowd was his photographic dedication to his partner Ulia… or who he lovingly refers to as his “Muse“… an almost obsession, but a healthy one – which from her photography seems to go both ways :)
And as if the photos of the dashingly handsome couple in love weren’t enough to make us all jealous, they have even made videos!
(from their youtube page)
I’ve felt love like this before… and have spent many in between years convincing myself that relationships are ok despite knowing something is missing, but in the past year I’ve really learnt something: don’t settle. Don’t settle for less than the best when it comes to something this important. Potentially, it’s for the rest of your life! Do you want to wake up at 40 next to someone who feels like a stranger? Or do you want it to be the person you trust the most, admire the most, and who helps you be a better person? If you can love as much as Rai and Ulia, save it for someone who’ll give back to you what you can give them :)
As Stellarjandri says:
“Rai and Ulia will make you believe in romance again…”
… that they do :)
Source article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6213686.stm
Ah. the battle for equality seems to have been won. Women are equally as stupid as men now.. We should all be so proud.
- Richard, Huddersfield
Amazing shot… perfect timing… showing the persistence of the human spirit :)
So many incredible photos by this photographer. Please please check out her work.