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<blockquote data-quote="AIstudio" data-source="post: 374274" data-attributes="member: 63135">Aaah that explains things. I was reading a post and they were referring to WHS. I wondered what they were talking about and it was like a 747 going over my head at some distance lol. Will leave that alone as it will only confuse things.I will use one drive per volume as you recommend and I will get all my data transferred off the system first. Then I will remove this RAID card and set it all up.[USER=63469]cics[/USER]&nbsp;I fully understand the logic here. To be honest I think that paying out another £200 ish for a card to do this is total overkill for me. I have all my Movies, music, games and family photos written to DVD's etc as I have been collecting for years. The only major pain I would have, if I lost everything on the Hard drives, would be that I would have to painstakingly put it all back on again. It does take a long time to rip them all to hard drive.So to conclude so far it looks like software RAID, such as disparity or FlexRAID, is the one to go for for me. I have toyed with the idea of servers and NAS but really don't want the extra cost of building, buying and running more equipment than is needed.Many thanks for the support here and I will get on with it and report back as to how it is working out.RegardsKev</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AIstudio, post: 374274, member: 63135"] Aaah that explains things. I was reading a post and they were referring to WHS. I wondered what they were talking about and it was like a 747 going over my head at some distance lol. Will leave that alone as it will only confuse things. I will use one drive per volume as you recommend and I will get all my data transferred off the system first. Then I will remove this RAID card and set it all up. [USER=63469]cics[/USER] I fully understand the logic here. To be honest I think that paying out another £200 ish for a card to do this is total overkill for me. I have all my Movies, music, games and family photos written to DVD's etc as I have been collecting for years. The only major pain I would have, if I lost everything on the Hard drives, would be that I would have to painstakingly put it all back on again. It does take a long time to rip them all to hard drive. So to conclude so far it looks like software RAID, such as disparity or FlexRAID, is the one to go for for me. I have toyed with the idea of servers and NAS but really don't want the extra cost of building, buying and running more equipment than is needed. Many thanks for the support here and I will get on with it and report back as to how it is working out. Regards Kev [/QUOTE]

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