[DM-MUG] backups, external FW drives, and concatenated RAID

[Darcy Baston]

I ran out of room on my external 250GB Archive drives (one source,  
one backup) this weekend. So I bought a new external 500GB WD MyBook  
Firewire drive, and used OS X's Disk Utility RAID features to  
concatenate the two 250GB externals to act as the 500GB backup  
solution for the new 500GB drive.

It took 30 seconds to set all this up. I couldn't believe how easy it  
was. The fact that Apple brought RAID functionality to home users,  
and it made it very easy to do, just impresses me to no end. :)

Screen capture : http://farm1.static.flickr.com/ 
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Darcy