January 2006 Archives

I had a huge problem. Since I am an avid photographer, I started building up a huge library of photos. I do not like archiving photos and delete them from my main library, since I like to have them all available for display.

The problem is that my library started pushing 200GB. It grows by about 100GB each year. I already have two 400GB HDD's in my G5 (RAID1), but with the OS and other applications I was running out of disk space. Since bigger hard drives are not readily available, I had to look for some form of external storage. I'll explain in this blog what my options were and why I dediced to build my own RAID array.

As any serious amateur photographer or professional for that matter should know by now, Apple released their professional Photography Workflow and RAW Processing software late November last year. It is called Aperture and I do not recall any other photographical software product causing so much uproar in the community. Here is my take on it all...