If it weren’t for bad luck

If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all. First, one of the NIC’s in my firewall goes bad. I got that replaced and it’s been running fine. This morning, the hard drive went out. The drive won’t even spin up. I need to find a replacement soon so that I can get pfSense going again.

I hope to find a replacement drive for cheap. It will have to be a 2.5″ (laptop) hard drive. It doesn’t have to be large because pfSense doesn’t take up much space and I set Squid to use a maximum of 100 MB. NewEgg has a 40 GB, 5400 RPM drive with 8 MB of cache for $45. That’s a lot better than the 20 GB, 4200 RPM drive currently sitting in the firewall (not counting the dead part).

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. – Aeschylus

06.May.07 Hardware

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4 Responses to “If it weren’t for bad luck”

Anonymous | May 6th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Reminds me of when my IBM AIX firewall died. It wasn’t covered under any maintenance contract (IBM refused to cover it), and $3K or so for a Microchannel card seemed a little expensive, so we went the PC route.
fullmetalashaman | May 7th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Look on the bright side, the pink elephant went away.
Cold Drink | May 8th, 2007 at 7:10 am
That’s cheap and all, but do you need that much space? Compact Flash MicroDrives are pretty quiet and easy on your utility bills.
wyckedone | May 8th, 2007 at 9:00 am
No, I don’t need that much space. I don’t think the board in the firewall will support booting from a CFM. I did try, when first setting it up, to use a USB jump drive and it didn’t work because the BIOS didn’t support it.