So my hard drive story hasn't quite come to a peaceful close like I hoped... over the last few days my RAID has failed twice more. What's odd, is that it's the same drive bay that keeps having issues- the brand new drive is the one that has failed again. I'm currently in the process of rebuilding from failure #3, so I called up Apple to attempt to get it fixed, since it sounds like there has to be something wrong with that particular SATA connector or the ribbon, etc.
I got pushed up to a specialist and he confirmed that he also thinks it's the drive bay itself that's the issue and said I could either have someone come out to my house to repair it in the next day or so (I didn't know Apple offered this sort of support) or I could take it to an Apple store or authorized reseller and they'd fix it in-store (although it may take a couple days depending on various factors).
I opted for the store option and will be heading out to the Apple store tomorrow evening. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but the eye of hurricane Hanna is set to be on top of my location around 8 am tomorrow. I set my appointment for 7 pm to try to avoid as much of it as possible, since by 8 pm it's projected to be a bit further North.
This is, of course, my work computer, so it will be very painful if I'm without it for even part of a work day... but this needs to be fixed sooner rather than later. At least from all of this, I've learned that Apple offers an option to come to your house to fix a problem if you're using a desktop. Sending it around overnight would cost an exorbitant amount of money, among other things.
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