I’m starting to rip my CDs onto the Openfiler box and I think I have a problem.
- I have about 130GB of space available for MP3s.
- I have about 500 CDs.
- Each CD is between 300 and 500 MB when ripped.
- That means that I need about 250GB of storage space.
Hmmm.
Well, I guess I’ll just rip what I can for now. I think I’ll start at A and go until I run out of space.
My dream would be to buy five 250GB drives. They are pretty cheap after rebate, but of course you are only supposed to get a rebate on one….
So I would take one of the drives and copy all the data that’s currently on the RAID to it, then build a new RAID with four of the new drives, giving me a quarter of a terabyte of space. Whee.
Then I’d copy the data back onto the RAID and add the fifth drive as a hot spare.
But it’s all a dream until I can buy five 250GB drives, which isn’t going to happen soon. 🙁
I soooo have to win that lottery.
Updated: Oops. My face is red. I should know better. As Nate points out in his comment, the CDs should not be that large when ripped.
And they aren’t.
I was looking at the CD size – unripped.
I am ripping at 192K so the CDs rip down to 40 to 90MB, not 400MB.
So if I have 500 CDs, they should require 42GB? Is that right? Well, I’m going to rip until I run out space, or out of CDs. 🙂
But it still would be cool to have three-quarters of a terabyte in my basement. 😛
