Koufax wishlist: New hard drives for the servers.
Last month, I posted that we were not going to do our traditional Koufax "fundraising" for all our wants and needs (bandwidth, et al.) but instead, put out "asks" for specific items as they arise. Our readers, with the kind flogging of our drive by dear friends, helped us purchase a 3000 watt generator which will allow us to run the Awards off the grid, at a much lower cost to Eric and I. Despite our set-backs wth our potentially contraband generator (NB, our case is being reviewed by PayPal and we've implemented a workable solution in the meantime), we were extremely pleased and grateful at how successful that fundraising event worked out.
So now Eric is asking for a few new hard drives for the servers. We have lovely, though not new, servers (and dedicated space in which to run them,) but some are not even functioning at this point as their hard drives have failed. The two that have working drives are faltering on a regular basis, and have been for over a year now. We limped through last year's Awards, with disks on the wishlist, but that was pushed out by bandwidth needs. As I mentioned earlier, Eric negotiated decent bandwidth and dedicated hosting from a previous employer/partner, so that need is filled, but the hard drive issues remain.
Eric believes this can be accomplished with around $500. Next Saturday is his birthday. I think this would be an awesome present. For him, as well as for all Koufax readers.
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