So there I was with a WHS server...

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I am not sure this is quit true.  what is kinda of cool with  the WHS server is that it does not create a raid. It still uses NTFS for its drives,  Each drive.  it spans them within the software i believe.
The drives were always readable independatly on other machines when i used it.  when i swapped out my 500gb drives to 2tb drives I could still read my data on the 500s on my laptop with a usb to sata box.

granted this was the WHS that was based on windows 2003.  they came out with a WHS on 2008. that may be different.

Yeah a raid array is useless trouble if you're not after redundancy. Probably it uses JBOD mode instead and spans drives.

[eagl]

Trell,

I'll give that a shot if something happens to the copy I made (that finally finished today).  I'm going to work the IRQ issue for a little bit then install WHS on my new hardware, and copy over the backup database per the Microsoft instructions.  Hopefully that will restore all the backups I've made over the last few years.  If not, I'll have to try something else which I can still do hopefully if I don't wreck my old WHS computer trying to "fix" it.