Let’s build the picture. First, it has been very hot in the San Fernando Valley. Super hot. To quote Matthew Broderick, “Africa hot”. Second, I was abusing the “limit one per customer” rule, and buying up multiple 1TB Western Digital hard drives at CostCo (under $200 for 1TB external? Yes, please!). Third, I have little cooling fans over every external hard drive in my system. Ok…that should do it.
Last night, around 2am, I was moving data from a lot of small RAID1 hard drives, to one of my new 1TB RAID1 systems. Everything was looking good, so I went to sleep.
Everything looked good, but - oops - I forgot to put the cooling fans on top of the new RAID.
Ugh.
I am now watching the functioning 1TB drive (that’s 1000 meg / 931 meg formatted) clone itself onto the drive that overheated in the middle of the night.
1% done.
Grrr….
OK, great minds of the internet. Figure out a way for me to run two a/c units, and all my computer equipment, on a puny 15A power line, in a sub-1940’s apartment.
The winning suggestion gets a hearty handshake, and a heartfelt “thank you”. 
EDIT: Disk Utility just said (finally) that it will be 26 HOURS (!!!) before the drive is up again. LAME!
This may help for a short time and will hopefully alocate enough power to both the AC’s and computer equipment while you make the transfer of data.
You can umplug unused TV’s, lamps, things used for charging, dont use the dish washer, clothes washer and dryer (a big power user). And kind of like what they say about oxygen bags on airplane flights “the bag won’t inflate though oxygen is flowing” well electricity is being used even though many thing arn’t “on”…
Hope you find a solution.
Brian
Comment by A_Test_For_The_Rest — June 23, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
Oh and, while tragic, you may have to unplug the “I SELL HELL AND SUFFER WELL” sign.
;-)
Brian
Comment by A_Test_For_The_Rest — June 23, 2008 @ 3:51 pm