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.
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