Quote Originally Posted by GrumpyDiver View Post
No Mike - the software on the RAID boxes (I use a DataRobotics Drobo unit and one Vantec 4-disk RAID). The firmware manages everything and the boxes look like any other drive to the end user. Drag and drop, just like on a regular external drive.

The RAID software reports disk issues that need to be addressed.
Manfred, I've had a look at the Drob website --very interesting. I looked at the possibility of RAID a number of years ago but abandoned any thought of using it because of the pitfalls of setting it up and, as I understood things, still being able to lose data on drive A if drive B in the RAID pair crashed. But it seems that the Drobo system looks after all these issues, but for a price!