Last week, just before I went to Las Palmas my fancy raid controller and the three SATA harddisks arrived. First I was worried about the compatibility as it’s written everywhere about SATA or SATA II and it seems I’m the only one in the internet who doesn’t see that they are backwards compatible. But anyway, yes they are.

The setup went smoothly and after all the important data got copied and mirrored, I formatted and mounted my old just-important-data-hd to /var/p2p so I won’t have to fight space problems over there for a while (Btw: Don’t get confused by strange manuals. raid-1 is mirrored also when the manufacturer writes something else in his manual)

I have created the first backup in my life.

Today, four days later that old disk where all the important data was on failed, disk crash.
Anyway, all data was already on the raid device.

Nice try entropy, nice try