>> yes it is quite easily done in the Disk Manager. Instead
>> of a raid type arrangement ...
>
>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.

Yes, handy for knocking up a larger drive from 'bits' you have handy, but 
having a raid array of identical drives is much nicer from the failure point 
of view - replace failed drive & rebuild array, where the other requires 
full backup to have been done before failure, and then do a full restore.

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