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Submitted by root on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 12:38.
 These guys had a big NAS disk system which they were upgrading and we had to migrate all the data off of it in order to replace it. Where to put it? How about a giant firewire array? This is how they ran in production for about a week. Note the classy cooling system. Even better is the fact that it wasn't really a RAID configuration, just a concatenation of disks... so if any one of them had gone down or come unplugged the whole data set would have been wrecked. Sweet. |
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Submitted by Netlord80 (not verified) on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 15:16.I worked in a place where I was taking over for some of the biggest idiots that I had ever seen working in IT. The primary file server also had no RAID, a flakey SCSI controller (lost 50% of the drives at random intervals requiring constant reboots), and a fan just like that one as a cooling system to keep it from overheating. To make matters worse, they had RAS and a live modem attached to the PDC (NT4). And guess what the (Main) Domain name was at that time... "workgroup".
It took me 3 years to clean up the mess those guys had left behind.
I know that too well.
Submitted by jdinteractive (not verified) on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 16:58.I know that too well. Interestingly it often happens to schools as well. Complete mess, nothing works, and the previous IT guys then have the audacity charging for their support time they had to use sorting out their own mess!
This is what we had to do to
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 09/18/2008 - 09:10.This is what we had to do to keep running when our supposedly bulletproof expensive storage failed.