So, earlier today I was getting ready to play Far Cry 2. I was, of course, going to play it on the PC which means that I was beginning the PC game ritual: rip the disc with BlindWrite, copy to mystique, install from image. Unfortunately, I looked at free space and I only had 3.1 GiB of space available on the 2 TiB array! I'd known for some time that space was getting scarce, but apparently I hadn't been paying enough attention. Needless to say, I'm opposed to deleting anything (I've always been a pack rat, especially of data), so I've bought myself a new set of drives to form the basis of a 4 TiB array as well as a bit of hardware to drive them. It looks like this is going to become a yearly occurance, so hopefully drive size increases continue to double to size of the $100 price point yearly.

If I'm lucky, I may even get all of the necessary equipment before the weekend since I ordered from NewEgg and Dell. Usually, I'd just buy everything from NewEgg, but they were out of stock on the low power Western Digital 1 TB drives (which coincidentally cost $99) and Dell was the most reputable place selling them. Then I can begin the ridiculously time consuming task of moving 1.9TB across a network.

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