Nice article. Thanks! Introduction of the move file technique has been a welcome advance in SQL Server. In the bad old days (SQLServer 6.5/7.0) I used to add a file to a filegroup on the new disk location, set the quota on the other files to zero, let the DB daemon siphon all the data to the new file and then drop the old ones when empty. Clunky but it worked. The move is miles better.