158/365: The street at night.
157/365: Freedom Hawk live at the Pitcher in Düsseldorf.
It’s a mistery to me, why we’ve never been to the Pitcher before. But last night we went to see Freedom Hawk and Seedy Jeezus, without being familiar with either of them. And it was awesome! And a small space like the Pitcher almost always makes for a great and intimate atmosphere.
The aftershow beers were appropriatly consumed to more Rock and Metal from the stereo. Success!
156/365
155/365: Seriously, how badly can you draw a fish!
154/365: At these stairs again.
153/365
That groove! That voice! I’m head-banging at my desk! ;-)
A corrupt Fusion Drive
It was yesterday early evening when my MacBook Pro decided to give me lots of error messages regarding corrupt or missing files in increasing frequency. All these messages indicated a problem with my hard drive: my manually created Fusion Drive consisting of a 256GB SSD and a 500GB HDD.
Disk Utility confirmed that the drive needed repair, but told me I have to repair it when booting from the Recovery Partition. But trying to repair it from there was not successful, either. And from then on the machine refused to boot. It crashed/turned off, right after I entered my password – which I had to enter early, because my drive was encrypted with FileVault.
I have been a bit suspicious of my Fusion Drive in the past 1.5 years, because most times when I checked with Disk Utility, it was in need of repair. This could be repaired most of the time, but I was still not feeling too good about it.
And then I found out after the crash yesterday, that the original author of the “How to build your own Fusion Drive”-tutorial does not use a Fusion Drive on HFS+-formatted hard drives, because he found it’s not keeping his data safe:
Btw.: I will actually not use Fusion drive on a Mac as HFS+ is not really keeping my data safe (see my HFS+ fails miserably demo). Using two HFS+ disks concatenated just increases the risk of data failure. And TimeMachine as backup has failed me as well in the past.
So, I decided to split up the Fusion drive, re-installed Yosemite on the SSD, and copied over my data from the Time Machine backup via Migration Assistant.
Now I keep the OS, apps, code and as much of the other data as possible on the SSD, and store my large media files (photos, music, videos) on the old, spinning, still-internal HDD.
I don’t know what the underlying problem was really, but I’m not keen to risk my data to a buggy Fusion Drive any longer. My system is now back up and running again and Disk Utility tells me that both my SSD and my HDD “appear to be OK”.
152/365: Keine Zeit mehr für Wölfe.
151/365: The Cow-Horse.
150/365: Auf Bergmannspfaden.
Heute sind wir 15km und sechs Stunden “Auf Bergmannspfaden” gewandert. Man kam an vielen stillgelegten Stollen vorbei (abgebildet ist der Gestellsteinstollen), kam durch ruhige Natur mit netten Ausblicken, und das ein oder andere Windrad konnten wir auch aus der Nähe betrachten.
149/365: Auf zum Männer-Familien-Wochenende.
A good chat about film vs. digital and finding your own voice or style in photography.
148/365: Today’s Chili Sin Carne.
Yes, yet another food shot.
It was delicious! Also, after not being very disciplined with our “not-so-much-meat”-diet for the last 2 weeks it feels good to be cooking ourselves again to avoid all the interesting restaurants and be eating mostly vegetarian food again.