The Rig: All of my music is ripped to a 3x250GB/1x300GBSATA RAID-5 (ubuntu mdadm) array in a box with an amd64 3800 and 1G of RAM. The box was running along just fine until (I think this is what happened) the water pump on the water cooler died. The machine heated-up and shut down to avoid burning out. I ordered a zalman fan (the water cooler pulled way too much power) and another gig of RAM (why not? in addition to slim, this box had been a full-blown media server in the past and just might be again).
The Problem: After installing the fan and the memory, the machine refuses to boot. There is no video, the post code indicates it's booting, but the HD and CD/DVD just keep cycling. I have tried just about every combo of stripped down mobo I can but nothing (other than the cycling drives). My music remains orphaned. The Opportunity(?): I have every reason to believe the music is safe, if unaccesible. But I don't know what is wrong. So I'm considering a new setup that would hopefully - keep price down by reusing componnents (memory, drives (i've got other large sata drives) and cpu), allow me to recover my music and provide fast (enough) network accessible storage that is expandable (ala LVM), redundant (ala raid) and external (ala eSATA, USB, firewire, AoE an enclosure - whatever). This machine would run slimcenter and mysql (and possibly some other network services) unless it makes more sense to just pull all that off to a seperate big/bad cpu/memory only box. or maybe I'm crazy. I just know I'd like to move to a box whose sole providence is providing lots of safe, fast (enough) storage using as many parts as I already have and doing so it such that my music isn't lost (I've had issues moving raid arrays from one box to another, or even one distro to another on the same hardware). Hopefully this isn't too OT or too 'we've all already done that - next".
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