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6/2003 article on homebrew RAID systems
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/storage/brick/
RAID 2003 Hardware comparisons:
http://www.ebabble.net/html/raid_2003.html
Interesting upgrades:
They used a with a hot-swappable UDMA backplane, redundant 650W power supply.
RMC4D-S 18 bays 4U Single 550W Power Rackmount for $839
Chenbro has even newer cases with higher density! More drives in a 4U *AND* they offer a 5U case now w/ 24 hot-swap drives PLUS extra bays for FDD, CDROM, and boot HD.
Every six months or so another article gets posted on Slashdot about MAME systems. I've always thought it would be cool to have 1 or 2 of the original video game machines that I wasted many hours and quarters playing as a youth. Dig Dug, Galaxian, Galaga, Centipede, Karnov, Spyhunter, and a host of other games I've long forgotten the name of. While cool, having a single game system takes up a huge amount of space and is it really necessary? My living room is already overrun w/ my Cyclone foosball table, perhaps one day when I have a larger house and money to waste it would be fun to have an arcade machine.
Anyway, a local Kirkland outfit posts
cabinet building plans, and has recently created a company: Game Cabinets, Inc.
Another custom MAME cabinet built from an old Millipede cabinet.
My previous attempts at CD archiving have always failed. I just haven't come up w/ a suitable solution to archiving everything once. Recently I ran across the Tong Family Blog, a Seattle-ite who details how they are using FLAC and MP3 to archive CDs.