So far, the rebuild process is going along well.  Later on the 14th, I went through the hardware on the system, thinking perhaps a controller had died, or a power splitter had failed.  Neither was the case, as I had forgotten that I don’t have any controllers with only two disks plugged in, and the box isn’t actually using any splitters at all.  I went through the whole thing and cleaned it out and checked all of the connections, and swapped a few SATA cables that seemed to be iffy just to be safe.

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So, I’m currently running two fileservers.  One at my house which has a 4×500GB RAID5, a 2×250GB RAID0, and runs a few other things for the local network.  Pretty much anything of any relevance gets stuck on the server, the actual computers just get by with whatever minimal hard drive was cheapest.  The other I stash at my mom’s for backup purposes, just in case something truly nasty happens that physically takes out my box at home.  It was originally set up with a 4×200GB RAID5.

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