On Apr 25, 2005, at 1:05 PM, shopdog wrote: > I see. I didn't understand that you get the array back that way. > I thought there was a way to pull the file off the one drive. Sorry I wasn't clearer. With RAID 1 (mirroring) you can still access your data if half of the mirror dies. You can also rebuild the mirror after the failure without having to restore the data. > Can you please explain in more detail the concatenation setup you > described? I'm not sure I quite understand... There are lots of tutorials on RAID available on the net. The set up I described is referred to as RAID 0+1. Phil