Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
I set up my eeePC 701 as a fileserver in the house over the Easter weekend. It runs Ubuntu and with a little configuration happily shared a few USB disks over the home network with SAMBA and NFS. Most importantly it ran pretty cool and didn't use a lot of power - important for something that was going to be left on all the time.
All worked well until the last couple of days when I noticed some pretty strange messages appearing in the logs. A reboot resulted in GRUB giving me the dreaded Error 17. Further investigation seems to indicate that the SSD has shed its mortal coil. Poo! Cue research to determine whether it's more cost and time efficient to get a replacement SSD or just buy a Mac Mini.
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