The software mentioned looks  efficient and I should backup the works, not just my image files. I have one added harddrive and last night ordered another..the idea was to allow the first to provide added storage space besides the drive on my pc and the second one is for total backup.  Doesn't seem like a bad idea.

A tech was at our business trying to restore a crashed pc(physical damage as in harddrive) and suggested "spring cleaning" to restore performance.  What he means is to reinstall the os about once every 6 mos or so.  Still, there is the chore of reconfiguring networks, reinstall of some programs, settings and stuff not to mention os service packs.

Richard, my pc is raid capable but I don't have the computer savvy to put in the other drives and configure that stuff.