Perhaps Riddler’s ‘good luck’ comment was a foreshadowing of the problems of today.

Half of the big NAS hard drive device died (150gb, all of The Designer’s work, and all of the print jobs).

It seems the first two hard drives in the box just died and then I spent most of the day trying to get the thing to work again, with absolutely no success.

UNFORTUNATELY, we knew this was going to happen and about 6 weeks ago had a group meeting where we decided Riddler would buy a replacement 160gb hard drive so we wouldn’t continue to have problems with the NAS device.

Of course, that never happened.

Riddler tried to fix the thing, and then killed the other half of the drive. Now all 300gb is gone.

So currently, we have our mirrored data downstairs and that is it. We have no NAS device at all. Meaning, all our interactive work, projects, print graphics, the entire corporate product… resides on those drives.

Also, once we do get replacement drives (now we need 2 100gb drives), it will take approximately 8 hours to copy the data from the backup mirror. Meaning, we’re sitting around doing nothing.

This was all mentioned to Riddler in advance of course, and the response was one of ‘I got busy.’

Why plan ahead for success when you can just sit back and accept failure every day?