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This certainly was a full and exhausting week. After all the pains and troubles I'm finally lifting my spirits through the fulfillment of what was always somewhat of a childhood dream. I've finally got enough storage capacity on one of the home servers to store my music collection on hard drives instead of DVDs.
The primary advantage of this will be that I will be able to find a song and play it much faster as I don't need to go through the whole procedure of: search CD database - find CD - insert CD - find song on CD - play it. Another big advantage will be that I will be able to stream all these songs straight from the server from anywhere in the world to my laptop, iPhone, etc (see ORB post).
Having many high capacity hard drives in the same system also gave me the opportunity to test the various types of RAID (Redundant Array of Intependent Disks). As a note to my future self and anyone else pondering using RAID I recommend against stripe arrays (RAID 0). The long story short is that if a single byte of information gets screwed up on one HDD in the array you risk losing ALL the data on ALL the HDDs. The speed gain just isn't worth the risk.
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