Going to need more space...

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.