Jerry-Rigged RAID Array is the Mind Killer

I do not love this RAID array any longer.  If I were not on a new frugal kick, I would be Drobo-ing all my data as we speak.

I replaced the failed SATA drive with a previously failed SATA drive that I had forgotten to mark as such.  SMART, god bless its little digital heart, warned me that the drive was about to go critical, so I found the originally intended drive and swapped that in.  Now it's all over but the waiting.  Waiting for the rebuild, and waiting for the inevitable failure of the other WD drive in 3-6 months.

The array is now 3/4 Seagate, after all the other WD drives failed.  No more WD for me, no matter how good the sale. 

Now I just need to build a sound-proof enclosure for these twin banshee machines (RAID tower and server tower) and I'll be set.

md3 : active raid5 sda1[4] sdd1[2] sdc1[1] sdb1[3]
      1465151808 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [_UUU]
      [>....................]  recovery =  3.1% (15227260/488383936) finish=273.2min speed=28863K/sec
      bitmap: 2/233 pages [8KB], 1024KB chunk

I wish I could connect an Apple RAID box to the AppleTV, and run Samba on it.  That's all I really need.