My new 300GB drive arrived today, and in a strange show of diligence I installed the drive. I not only installed it, but this time I attached some drive rails and mounted in one of my bays; this was done to maximize airflow around the drive on the chance that the old drive died due to head. I also took a risk and plugged in my 200GB drive, the first one to fail. The machine booted, the drives are active, /dev/hdb1 was formatted, /dev/hdd1 (the 200GB drive) is mounted, and I am recovering data from 4 months ago!

I'm still not sure how /dev/hdd1 will hold up, so I hesitate to put the spurs to it, and I'm still not sure how I may or may not change my current anime habits. But as of right now I have 580GB of functioning storage space on my own personal server. This was a good night.

[composed and posted with ecto]