Nonsequittal Rumblings

Just couple months ago, I bought a new hard drive, along with a hard drive case, so I could make my own external hard drive unit. It works really well for me, with the combination of USB2 and firewire.

Yesterday evening, as I was driving back from dropping my daughter off with her mother, I noticed my windshield was filthy. It was covered with the dead insects. That hinted me with one fact – it’s going to rain soon. Some people knows that when the insects/bugs are flying low, it is going to rain soon.

And yes, it really did, and brought some thunder and stuff a long with it. That also meant that there is a great chance for power blackout or brownouts. And, no, I didn’t think about that when I was driving back last night.

Right before I went to bed, I started encoding Runaway Jury, using this external drive. There must have been a brownout over night.

The PC kept running, because it’s plugged in to the back up power supply. I like my UPS for this reason. But my external drive sort of failed, because it was not receiving the grace of the UPS. Well…. duh. Why didn’t I think of that before? Now I need to go back and figure out which power cord goes with which device, so I can plug this good, trusty drive into the power backup system. Oh, pain in the behind…

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