Much to my dismay, the Lupinia server project has been stalled. I have everything sitting on my desk waiting, except for one thing: The second hard drive necessary to create a RAID 1 array.

RECAP: I ordered a pair of really nice Seagate 500gb drives from Newegg at the same time I ordered the server itself, and they even arrived first. Upon installing them and giving the server a test-boot, HD 1 gave the Click of Death. Pissed off, I RMAed the drive, and almost two weeks later, the replacement arrived. I installed the drive, fired up the server and…HD 1 Not Present Or Not Installed. Curious, I gave it power from my desktop computer (which has external SATA ports and is far, far quieter), and it wouldn’t spin up, it just sat there and gave a repeating buzzing noise, like the drive shaft on one of the motors wasn’t engaged or something.

I’ve submitted another RMA, a Refund this time, and I’ll be purchasing a companion drive from another vendor. I’ve heard great things about Tiger Direct, but they don’t have an exact match for the drive I already have. I found a place that has a bajillion positive reviews from Google Shopping or whatever it’s called, but does anyone have any recommendations? Here’s the drive I need, it has to be an exact match to set up RAID properly: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822148288

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