capsces; What you want to get first is a Promise card, like the Promise Ultra 133-TX2. They are upgrade hard drive controller cards to allow you to use the newer drives on a not so new computer (although they work just fine and a new one, as well). What makes them glorious is that you don't have to disable the IDE connectors on your motherboard; with one of these cards installed, you could have up to 8 IDE devices in one computer (my current setup has a plain-jane 56x CD rom and a 24x CD-RW on the motherboard connectors so each has an IDE channel all to itself and doesn't get into an access control fight with other devices, and 4 drives of various speeds and sizes hanging off the promise card. Another feature of the promise cards is independant device timing, so you could literally connect and old EIDE drive and a new ATA mode 6 drive on the same ribbon, and each would access at its proper speed, instead of the old drive pulling the new one down ). Instead of doing the 'back-up and reinstall everything' dance, you just get a new drive, install, fdisk and format it, and move what you want onto the new real estate. Of course this does let Poser grow exponentially....