What if I want to configure reByte to treat multiple drives as one contiguous file system?
In other words, I’d like to add two 200 gig drives and two 300 gig drives to total 1,000 gigs (1 terabyte). That’s a really bad idea and here’s why. Hard drives fail. It’s just a matter of time. That’s why RAID was invented in the first place—so there’s redundancy. reByte supports RAID and with that you can achieve very large drive capacities inexpensively. The only way reByte works is to use identical drives. In the long run, adding different sizes and capacities would only increase the probability of problems and provide large technical support and operational challenges that aren’t worth the small amount of money it costs to do it the “right way”. With drive costs getting as low as $0.50 per gigabyte, there’s no excuse not to use brand-new, high-capacity drives in our opinion. Why shouldn’t I just use an external hard drive as a backup device? I can buy those for $200-$400. Sometimes this can make sense. Using one of these devices will require that you actually remember to back up y
