It took less than a month before the pimp drive started dying today, perhaps because of its own massive and poorly ventilated heat. It won’t mount, Disk Utility can’t see it, and fsck has been hanging for longer than I’m quite comfortable with. I expect to find it cold and dead in the morning, but right now I need to go to bed, and grieve for my backups (which will not run tonight).

Update: Left to its own devices for long enough, fsck_ext2 successfully fscked my drive right up. I luv you, fsck.