Whomever did was totally lying.

We just dropped the $400+ on them at the vet's getting Moxie and Gizmo's teeth cleaned. So I mean, here's the thing....now I brush them once a week (to hopefully keep down hairballs), have to clip their nails once a week, change the 3 litter pans every other day, clean the water fountain once a week, and to top it off we now have to brush their teeth every other day.

It's insane. I could quit my job and spend my whole day just taking care of them. Which begs the question, who actually does all this stuff? Does anybody think people are going to brush their cat's teeth daily? It's just crazy because growing up I was always lead to believe that cats were pretty much like houseplants, except they pooped more and shed. Of course I don't want them to get like Julie where we had to have her get 5 teeth pulled because all she did was eat soft food/human food. I mean, would you want to be 10 years old and have a permanent tooth ache because nobody cared enough? Just another stupid thing I never thought about, like how declawing your cats is traumatizing to them.

Moving on, almost a year ago I bought an Netgear SC101 from Circuit City w/ a rebate. Up until last week I was actually pretty happy with it. I had purchased two identical 250gb hard drives and put them in there as a mirror, thinking that I was double safe with my data (cheap raid) and everything was going to be great. I even sold it to Jen as a data backup, set up everything and patted myself on the back for being proactive in data backup.

Here's the thing, it sucks. It doesn't just suck, I mean it truly 100% without doubt is a useless piece of shit. Actually I take that back, if I took a crap, shoved an Ethernet cable into it and hooked that up to my network it would probably be of more use than the SC101. Heck add a blue LED and it would probably sell like hotcakes......well...stinky hot cakes.

Basically, one day it just vanished from the network. After many power cycles and resets I was able to see it again but magically both the hard drives showed 0% free. And here's the kicker, not only can I not access it or the data on it, you can't hook up the drives in it to a windows computer. They don't use FAT or NTFS file systems....they use some proprietary one that can't be accessed. Let me translate that for you, my data is lost. Almost 100% irretrieveable unless you jump through some incredible crazy hoops that no home user could ever do and didn't even work for me. So let's recap:
- All data vanished, no error messages or warnings
- Can't retrieve data unless you use an SC101 to read it, but you can't because it doesn't see it anymore
- Can't fix it using the documentation
- Using a mirror does nothing to offer data redundancy, in fact it's useless

Right now I'm trying to reformat the disks I had in it, so I can attempt to set it up again WITHOUT mirroring, one of them is taking forever to format though so I suspect it went bad. But basically all I'm going to do is wait until I can pickup a SimpleShare NAS for $85 bucks and replace this useless toaster.

Oh and for the record, I'm not alone.