As you can see in the post below, I had an overheating issue with a RAID I set up. That is fixed.

The new problem: The resyncing…

When you set up a RAID, and you reboot your computer (which I do every few weeks), the RAID likes to check and see that everything is ok. Seems fine, until you realize that the RAID is about to try to resync a terabyte of information.

OK…long story short: RAID is a bad idea.

Enter Carbon Copy Cloner (or “CCC” for short).

I already use CCC to clone my laptop hard drive every few days, just in case something might happen to the drive (read The Art Of Backing Up for proof of what could happen). I never thought to use it to clone my 1TB (terabyte) hard drives. I thought a RAID 1 setup would be better.

Nope.

You live. You learn. You watch your computer take another 26 hours to clone a hard drive…

UPDATE: “04:30:02 The backup operation has completed. Elapsed time: 26:50:54″