Lightroom Database Question

I currently use Bridge, Raw and CS4 in a Vista environment and am very happy. I am finding the need to manage my images and am looking at Lightroom to help me. My issue has been that I have 2 x 300GB drives, 1 x 750 GB drive and 2 x 1TB drives and did not want to address a query to each individual drive.
My question is: If I use a storage server like the HP MediaSmart Server EX490, can I then address all my thousands of images stored on multiple drives that are attached to the server with a single Lightroom query?
Any help will be much appreciated...........Mark

Mark Sloane wrote:
I currently use Bridge, Raw and CS4 in a Vista environment and am very happy. I am finding the need to manage my images and am looking at Lightroom to help me. My issue has been that I have 2 x 300GB drives, 1 x 750 GB drive and 2 x 1TB drives and did not want to address a query to each individual drive.
After you import the photos into the Lightroom Library, you don't have to worry any more about which drive the photos live on. You can have a single query find photos that might reside on all 4 drives, Lightroom really doesn't care.
My question is: If I use a storage server like the HP MediaSmart Server EX490, can I then address all my thousands of images stored on multiple drives that are attached to the server with a single Lightroom query?
I don't know about server issues, someone else will have to address that.

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