So, I picked up a new box, as I mentioned. Got it all installed and configured, put in all the apps, activated everything, even added an extra 250G scratch IDE drive (’cuz raw videos take up some space) and a 3.5″ Linkskey card reader (so I can just pop in a CF or SD card and copy it… yay!).
Then, I come in Saturday, and it’s a dead box.
But, wait, it’s all RAID… it shouldn’t be dead!
I’m not sure if a disk died (they both seem to check out) or (more likely) the SiliconImage RAID controller is bad. Luckily, there’s also an nVidia SATA RAID controller on the box, so I’m trying that one, again loading from scratch.
Still a little annoyed that this was more or less all for naught, and that I may have to RMA the motherboard… it’s gonna be such a pain to un-build everything and then re-build it, not to mention the downtime. Bah.
So… the best laid plans of mice and men. And yet another reason why RAID isn’t necessarily the answer to everything (although you’d figure MB failures would be rare…)