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Now, I understand I will look like a complete idiot here.  But I bought a Linkstation LS-WX4.0TL Duo with the intention of putting all my music and then burning all my CDs onto a drive to access from my Sonos speakers, and have a bit more free space for my laptop. 

Now the whole purpose was to have RAID 1 so the music could be mirrored, but I have no idea whether it comes packaged in RAID 1, or whether I need to set this up.  I've looked through the manual but being massively rubbish at computers/slightly stupid, I can't really tell whether it is in RAID 1 and/or how to set it up if it isn't.  If anyone can help me with some advice here I'd really appreciate it.  I have my music copied across already, but understand that changing it will wipe it (this is fine).  The NASNavigator doesn't seem to be too clear on this.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/therosk83/buffalo.jpg

Here is a screenshot of my Navigator if this helps. 

You are in RAID 0 mode.

So I just delete the RAID Array and then create a new one in Raid 1?  Thank you for responding, it is hugely appreciated.

Thank you very much both.  Final thing - I've started putting the files across immediately in spite of the 18 hour wait for the check, will this be OK?

Ideally you should wait until the RAID check has completed before adding data, doing so before it finishs can in some cases corrupt the RAID.

It sounds like you are moving these files from your computer to the LS-W, when going to delete the files on the computer.  This will not be a backup. You need to have files in two separate places to be a backup. A LS-W is not a backup if the files aren't somewhere else as well.