Mo/Milo, I know this is a long-shot but...

The folks that crunch for CPDN are a wide and varied group. I'm sure the jobs folks have also range all over the place from mere Rocket Scientist to highly esteemed Sanitation Engineer. However, I strongly suspect that there's a higher than average % of folks that are somehow connected to IT (and/or are just hobby hardware geeks). As I sit here and ponder the disk space and power supply problems going on my eyes keep drifting to my 'parts shelves'. Specifically to the 7 extra HDDs, 4 extra power supplies and 17 power cords over there. Now my stuff is officially certified 'Junk' and all older than dust. But I can't help to wonder if someone else has access to or happens to have a spare PSU or a "raid array" of the same make/model that ya'll need. Not likely but posting up the specific make/model of the parts needed wouldn't take more than a couple minutes and we might just get lucky. Maybe somebody with more means than I would be willing to ship ya'll a PSU as a 'loaner'. Who knows? Maybe worth a shot in the future.

Hmmmm... Now that reminds me, where is that old dead ProLiant server box I kept around for the PSU and SCSI card.

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Hi Skip

That's a very thoughtful suggestion and tomorrow I'll send Milo a PM with a link to your post.

Milo ordered a new power supply for uploader1.atm on Monday ie on the first working day after the PSU broke down. If it had been delivered on time I expect this server would already have been up and running again by now.

I'm no hardware expert but I think that rather than extra disks, what Milo needs are complete new servers with 20TB space. I believe he's already ordered one of these and is hoping for funding for another to avoid the current server problem in the future. If I've misunderstood that Milo will put me right.

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I'm no hardware expert but I think that rather than extra disks, what Milo needs are complete new servers with 20TB space. I believe he's already ordered one of these and is hoping for funding for another to avoid the current server problem in the future. If I've misunderstood that Milo will put me right.

That's indeed what we're after. One order has gone in and I'm working on another.
Thanks for the offer of storage; it's something that I'll have to put before those higher in the chain of command before I can make use of it, though.