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I’m not sure why, but I’ve had the song Dropped stuck in my head for awhile now.

It’s certainly not the best video I’ve ever seen, that’s for sure — but the song is entertaining.

Since the start of the new year, it seems as if Sonja and I have been busy every weekend catching up on television shows. We have all the major ones down:

• Big Bang Theory
• Burn Notice
• Chuck
• Doctor Who
• How I Met Your Mother

We’re hoping to catch up on Dexter this weekend, after that — we should be pretty much done with all the major shows we watch regularly.

Of course, now I’m torn between watching shows regularly, or letting them stock-pile up again and doing TV Marathons. Honestly I prefer the marathons because I can’t stand the cliffhanger endings that most of the shows we watch have…

The only real problem is that we now have a solid 4-5 shows we want to keep caught up on. Not to mention Lost should be starting soon too (February). So who knows!

Over the weekend I broke down and finally ordered myself a 2TB hard drive. Of course, I checked Monday morning and the drive dropped $10.00 in price. So I promptly canceled my ordered, and re-ordered the same hard drive. I wish NewEgg was able to do price adjustments directly back to you, but even with a little extra hassle, it still saved me $10.00.

I picked up the Hitachi HD32000 IDK /7k 2TB drive. I think this is my first Hitachi drive, so hopefully it treats me well. I’ve had fairly good luck with Western Digital and Seagate, never had a good Maxtor drive though. I think every one of them has gone bad (which does make me a little leery of Seagate now, but that’s another story).

So anyway, I just finished installing the new hard drive in the Home Server, which is good because now it finally stopped yelling at me about “low disk space.”

The sad part is that I used up my last SATA port  and I’m now out of drive bays in my hot-swap container. I really should pick up a new 5-in-3 Hot-Swap SATA Backplane and a 4-port SATAII controller card. Of course, I run into a similar problem there as I do with HDD’s. Except, instead of price, I worry about a chance in technology. The backplane hasn’t dropped in price in two years, and those controller cards haven’t changed much either. Except, now with 6gbps SATA coming out, it might be best to wait and get a 6gbps card and backplane for next set of hard drives later…

Oh well, future me will worry about that.

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