> yes it is quite easily done in the Disk Manager. Instead 
> of a raid type
> arrangement where a sector on each drive gets written in 
> order, the drives
> become 'in series', so the first drive is 0 to 80GB, say, 
> the next drive
> might be the 80-100GB part of capacity, and so on. It 
> allows you to add
> non-equivalent sized drives together to make one large 
> one.

Sounds good - but it would mean that swapping out parts of 
the 'array' as required became hard to very very hard and 
you'd have to backup the unit as a whole as you would not 
easily be aware of exactly where given data resided. (At 
present I can say that a given event etc is on drive Q: 
which is the 500 GB over there and if I want it backed up 
then I ... . As explained before, I run manual backup 
overview as photos get lots of duplicates made during 
editing etc and some subsets are losable without too much 
(or any) pain and I don't want to replicate all the sub sub 
sub sets.



    Russell




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