Over at the Life Zero Blog, John gives you a great breakdown on how to build a relatively inexpensive 4TB RAID system that offers pretty spectacular performance from off the shelf parts. It uses a ProAvio Editbox 8ML, (We’re currently working on a review of the newer EB8MS model for the magazine) as its RAID case.

It’s an interesting and informative read that takes you through the alphabet soup of hard drive related acronyms, and spells out exactly what you need to do to get your own system up and running.

As a guy who used to build his own computer systems himself (before it became cheaper just to buy your computer off the shelf), its nice to see that with a little research and a screwdriver you can still get a deal on good hardware by applying a little DIY to the task.