Over the weekend, we went to the Sharjah Aquarium and out to the new souk at Wafi. Got some pics up on flickr finally. All the shots are direct from the camera (processed to JPEG via Aperture’s RAW converter). Some of them will wind up on the gurucollege.net/pix site at some point in the near future. I’m trying to find some kind of photography class in Dubai or Sharjah, as I’d like to sharpen my skills somewhat, but I’m not really motivated when it’s this hot. I need to just bite the bullet and do it, right?

Additionally, the Seagate drive is back from warranty work, and reinstalled into the array in my personal file server, bringing it up to 2.7 terabytes of useable space – with a redundant drive. This way, I can afford to have a single drive die on me, and have time to replace it, before I start to lose data. Once I go whole-hog (in a year or two) and finish/upgrade the file server, my plan is to have 2 vdevs of 5 devices each, and an extra drive as a spare. I’m not sure how I want to handle the spare – having it as a hot spare and running in the case, or having it “cold” and sitting on a shelf waiting for need. Regardless, I’m going to need a better solution for mounting the drives in the case, and I need to find some kind of hot-swappable drive sled that’s happy with Solaris. Fun fun.

I guess the next project I’m working on is iSCSI exports from my fileserver to my desktop for Aperture Vaults – as Aperture won’t vault to a network drive.