Good day August.

 DC> Personally, I like the idea of a temporary hdd connected via
 DC> USB to a clone or image.

	Darn right. I know nil as far as RAID is concerned but I could not live
without the Restore app in Windows and the more serious cloning of my
machines. I fool around enough on this main machine to the extend that I
have used Restore quite often, it has recouped an attempt at loading a
programme that did not pan out and restoring to just previous to this
"experiment".

	The clone was resorted to only once or twice but has really been the
"spare tire" in my opus operandi. I do a clone on the first day
of every month as a discipline. Charles is the one person who put me up to
Acronis, I used it first as it was designed to clone to a larger HD so as
to substitute it in a Thinkpad but soon adopted this procedure as a fine
backup.

	What more is RAID offering ?

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