A loyal gadget lays down its load at last...

My little slug looks like may have finally breathed its last: it spontaneously powered down sometime yesterday and now when I attempt to bring it back up, the status LED flashes orange for a second and then it powers off again which makes me suspect the power supply may be faulty. If I can't get it working again soon, I think I'm going to bite the bullet and move to a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian and hang the slug's USB disk off it to act backup for an SSD card — I was never able to get the disk to spin down on the slug and I'm looking forward to having a mail server that's a bit quieter.

Unfortunately the slug acted as my mail server — I know, I'm so trad! — so until I get a replacement, I'm stuck with my ISP's web interface to Exchange. Great...

ETA: testing appears to confirm my initial hypothesis, with the power dying more quickly when the network adapter is connected, suggesting that the supply is no longer providing the current required to boot the slug. Replacement power supplies seem to be pretty easy to get hold of, so I'm going to give that a try before carrying out a full-scale migration.