Hi Andre, This is helpful stuff. I turned off the nfs stuff, since I'm not using on my home network. Might as well eliminate variables, and stuff that will slow me down. I did some updates this morning -- the updates I did this morning were from the FC2 site. If I recall they were pretty minor. (I've applied all that FC2 had available so far). The HD fortunately is SMART: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD400JB-00ETA0 Serial Number: WD-WMAHM1427116 ... SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 225 - I ran the short test, and it passed. I feel more confident that the drive is good -- now on to figure what else happened :)