Extended Delays

[ZERO]

My primary storage drive is corrupted and I am still running checkdisk to repair the file system. It might be a day or 2 before it can finish. All the work on the GG DM FFA server was saved on that array. In the event that it does come back I will be trying to order up 2 4tb drives to make hard backups to encase this occurs again. The underline issue is that backing up all the server data and doing all the game server work locally is very difficult for a ntsf volume. Unfortunately the only replacement filesystem is only available for windows server 8 which is bend over $$. I can barely afford even the 4tb drives to copy the data to...

If anyone has some extra $$ lying around it would help me get this shit fixed faster lol.

Anyways there will be extensive delays for days assuming I can recover the volume. If not expect delays lasting months to even a half a year. That volume stored all my work for the last 3 years. A separate backup computer would have protected me from this but I do not got 1500$ lying around to build a dedicated file server to backup my main system

So lets pray I can recover an hopefully just backup to some 4tb drives on esata or something till I can get money for a better solution. (as if I even got the money for 2 4tb drives )

[acolyte_to_jippity]

could you possibly use a linux-based storage system instead?

ext4 is a bit easier to fuck with than ntfs, as far as i can tell.

[Rage]

Smash them piggy banks boys and girls... daddy needs a new toy!

[StarsMine]

Was it not raided to anything D:

[ZERO]

The problem is the array is on my main windows system that I use for everytihing. That is what I meant by a secondary system to have a linux file system backup of the other file system. I have raid 6 but this is not a raid issue just an OS and file system problem.

[Steamer]

So,... hopefully we can raise about 400 for base drives at minimum cost/performance. I'll kick in soon.

[Rage]

Put up a donation bar across the top of the site page. Starts at $0 and final is $400. Brief description of what donations are for.

You can see the idea im refering to on the pantless server: http://thepantless.com/activity.php

[XX0wnsXY]

Put up a donation bar across the top of the site page. Starts at $0 and final is $400. Brief description of what donations are for.

You can see the idea im refering to on the pantless server: http://thepantless.com/activity.php

If everyone donates one extra payment for admin we should be close. Ill donate when you get a donation link up.

[ZERO]

Luckily, I have managed to recover the drive as checkdisk decided it would work. However, it is clear now the danger that my data is in. Currently I have 5.77TB of data on a 7.27TB array. Therefore in order to provide better protection there is 2 options:

A) get 2x 4tb drives for $380 this would provide a backup but force me to separate out the files a lot with the drives individually formatted and the max .8% capacity before they are over loaded these drives can not even fit what I need. So basically $380 for a 1 time use copy of what I have now likely could recopy once a month. In the event the raid drive gets corrupt I can copy from these 2 drives and only lose 1 month and prey they do not die during the transfer lol.

B) Build backup file server for $1331, this would permanently solve the problem by having a second redundant system main costs are $536 for 4x 3tb hdds (run raid 5) and then $470 for a raid card. The rest is for the case/ram/motherboard/cpu. I would then run linux on it and some sort of redundant file system that is better than ntsf.

So here is the deal, logically paypal will take money if you donate directly so I will accept any payment type for those that want to donate. I will update with posts in here how much I have collected so far. My goal is to get close to $1000 so I can do option B. PM me if you want to donate and we can work out the best way for you to send money.

Regardless I will take what I can get and combine it with what I can scrap together and figure out something. Luckily I think if I am careful my main system should not have any more hard crashes that corrupt the drive but there is no way to know when windows will decide to blow up my array lol.

For those of you that wonder how one has problems like this here is a list of problem in the past this single system has had (why not for the lolz)

• motherboard fried due to sabotage of the cooling system
• new tube to replace sabotage tube
• new motherboard DOA could not get rma
• new new motherboard DOA gave up on that board
• 120mm fan failed (replaced)
• 3 sticks of RAM failed (RMA win)
• leds on cpu ht failed (never fixed)
• gpu failed (ie crashed a lot) (replaced with new one)
• pump power wire cut (repaired but untested)
• SSD containing the OS failed (replaced with new SSD)
• 2tb drive DOA (RMA win)
• 120mm fan failed (never fixed)
• 2tb drive died after 30 hours (RMA fail)
• raid 0 array crashed when 15k sas drive broke (replaced array with 1 ssd)
• 2x 120mm fan failed (never fixed)
• pump caught fire (luckily the rest of the computer did not)
• male QD failed (needs RMA)
• female QD failed (needs RMA)
• flow sensor failed (needs repair attempt/rma)

So there you have it, when you do a lot on your computer you also have a lot done to you (in the forum of shit exploding).

On a related note GG DM FFA will be on schedule for testing sometime Monday unless something breaks again in the next 24 hours.

[Spasm]

Luckily, I have managed to recover the drive as checkdisk decided it would work. However, it is clear now the danger that my data is in. Currently I have 5.77TB of data on a 7.27TB array. Therefore in order to provide better protection there is 2 options:

A) get 2x 4tb drives for $380 this would provide a backup but force me to separate out the files a lot with the drives individually formatted and the max .8% capacity before they are over loaded these drives can not even fit what I need. So basically $380 for a 1 time use copy of what I have now likely could recopy once a month. In the event the raid drive gets corrupt I can copy from these 2 drives and only lose 1 month and prey they do not die during the transfer lol.

B) Build backup file server for $1331, this would permanently solve the problem by having a second redundant system main costs are $536 for 4x 3tb hdds (run raid 5) and then $470 for a raid card. The rest is for the case/ram/motherboard/cpu. I would then run linux on it and some sort of redundant file system that is better than ntsf.

So here is the deal, logically paypal will take money if you donate directly so I will accept any payment type for those that want to donate. I will update with posts in here how much I have collected so far. My goal is to get close to $1000 so I can do option B. PM me if you want to donate and we can work out the best way for you to send money.

Regardless I will take what I can get and combine it with what I can scrap together and figure out something. Luckily I think if I am careful my main system should not have any more hard crashes that corrupt the drive but there is no way to know when windows will decide to blow up my array lol.

For those of you that wonder how one has problems like this here is a list of problem in the past this single system has had (why not for the lolz)

• motherboard fried due to sabotage of the cooling system
• new tube to replace sabotage tube
• new motherboard DOA could not get rma
• new new motherboard DOA gave up on that board
• 120mm fan failed (replaced)
• 3 sticks of RAM failed (RMA win)
• leds on cpu ht failed (never fixed)
• gpu failed (ie crashed a lot) (replaced with new one)
• pump power wire cut (repaired but untested)
• SSD containing the OS failed (replaced with new SSD)
• 2tb drive DOA (RMA win)
• 120mm fan failed (never fixed)
• 2tb drive died after 30 hours (RMA fail)
• raid 0 array crashed when 15k sas drive broke (replaced array with 1 ssd)
• 2x 120mm fan failed (never fixed)
• pump caught fire (luckily the rest of the computer did not)
• male QD failed (needs RMA)
• female QD failed (needs RMA)
• flow sensor failed (needs repair attempt/rma)

So there you have it, when you do a lot on your computer you also have a lot done to you (in the forum of shit exploding).

On a related note GG DM FFA will be on schedule for testing sometime Monday unless something breaks again in the next 24 hours.

All you can really say is wow to that list of bad luck.