VeeshanVault

1. Sat night a drive dies in my media server. Thankfully unRaid rebuilt the data without a hitch after I bought a replacement drive.

2. Yesterday I get back from the doctor to find my router flaking out. Weird blinking lights. Do a search on my iPhone and find out the power adapter on the router has taken a crap. ok, fine, I have plenty of older routers/switches and their power adapters laying around. So I check the router, dam thing uses 5V and everything else I have uses 12V. So I pull a MacGyver and splice the power cable to the 5V line on a molex connector and hook that bitch into one of my servers. It's still working and my house hasn't burned down

3. Tonight while I'm getting ready to image my laptop, thing flakes out and blue screens. I tried everything, all kinds of safe modes options, repair, etc... I can't get Vista to boot without blue screening. So I take the drive out so I can just copy the files off it, bam no power. Looks like the controller is fried. So now I have to see if a local store carries the same model or order one from Newegg to try and swap out the controller so I can hopefully copy the data off it.

DON'T PISS OFF THE TECHNOLOGY GOD, MORTAL!

Tell me about it. The sad thing is when the laptop died I was in the process of making an image of it in preparation of installing Windows 7. Normally I have recent images, but for the laptop the last image was from like 6-7 months ago because something happened with Acronis and it stopped working. I'm waiting for a duplicate drive from newegg. Hopefully it's just the controller on the drive and I can swap it out to get my data out.