Let’s see – 75 hours to rebalance after replacing one drive and I have three more drives to do. That’s 12.5 days of waiting for the automation to do its thing.
It would take maybe 36 hours to rsync all of my Drobo’s content over to a few external USB drives then I can just swap all the drives in one shot, do a low-level rebuild, then rsync the content back over.
I would have this as a beach house.
I went to the local specialty-lumber supplier and selected a quantity of material for a small boat. The shopkeeper looked at the order, then at me and said quite sure of himself, “Ah-ha! You must be building a boat.”
I was in no mood for smalltalk.
“No,” I responded, as deadpan as I could muster, “Spaceship.”
I stared at him for a moment, unblinking, and giving him just enough time to process my response. “I’m just trying to get home.”
Am I building the boat?
Or is the boat building me?
the rest of me 