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Yup, and in my case it was going in the metal scrap bin at work so it was by far the cheapest backup option.

I've lost data in the past... I won't again. Many thanks for the answers gents, I've still got some research to do but you have answered my queries so many thanks.

Hi all. I've been advised to look at this as part of a home server refresh. Currently I have: 4x3TB 2x6TB 4x2TB All with data on and these are backed up via a HP P212 to a LTO4 tape autoloader by Backup Exec. While I have not got the capacity to add another drive, I do have the ability to 'free up' a drive by shifting data around so could I. Free up a disk. Create a pool. Copy data to that pool to free up another. extend the pool. Repeat until all drives are within the pool? Is this possible? I don't need to protect data over multiple disks due to the LTO but the single disks are becoming hard to manage so ideally with this I can replace the smaller disks with larger ones as I grow data. Cheers.