Hi Jim, I am forwarding this to my wife Lynda who is the head techie at the computer store that she and I own, ALNC Computers here in Hamilton. I assume you are somewhere here in the ice cube since you are using shaw.ca as an internet provider The short of it is that the Raid system is relatively easy to set up providing you know what you are doing but the drives ideally need to be the same brand and model. We usually try to steer our business customers into utilizing a Raid system since if it is done properly and you have one drive fail it actually warns you that one drive has croaked. Cheers Randy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Patterson Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 11:08 AM To: Wigtownshire Roots Web list Subject: [WIG LIST] Identify a Placename please? Plus Raid Backup? To all the kind folk who have waded in and used all their vast resources to try and locate the answer to my posting, thank you so much one and allJ Sorry to be away for a wee while but I had a hard drive failure and although I had everything backed up nicely occurrences like this always change something that needs considerable attention it seems.. During this downtime I heard that some computer motherboards have a process called "Raid" available on them and I am now considering the purchase of a new PC so I can utilise this technology usually used by commercial ventures but fits well for Genealogists work I feel. With the raid process available one simply asked the computer repair folk to install a second internal hard drive of the same size as your main hard drive and set up the process so and from then on all activity on your main drive is completely duplicated onto the second drive giving you a real time backup process. Food for thoughtJ I will be responding to all who emailed directly as I get to your messages, sorry for the delay. Cheers Jim Patterson ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message