Dale that is astounding, priceless information. Yikes and thank you. I am going to take your advice wholesale concerning naming of drives and will install Partition Magic. The equiv does exist in the mac world. Hope you don't mind me contacting you when it is time to really assemble things, for closer questions. What do you mean by "Internet Apps?" I already follow that philosophy about nothing on C: but the OS, if possible, and carry the same convention on Mac. I wish Apple would ship the G5 with a small small footprint 20GB or so drive for the OS and leave its two bays open for the 250GB SATA drives so you could do RAID etc. internal with the OS safely on its own drive. They insist on putting a pedestrian 80GB in one bay. You can't buy a G5 without it. I have three underutilized Macs. I'm hoping the Vue4Pro renderfarm implementation for OSX is excellent. That way, life will be easy...the complex stuff on the G5 and the messy stuff on my stand-alone P4 PC. If the cross-platform scheme really does work, I can add two or more low-cost PCs as cows, and expect very little from them except to be cows. Cows is cows. ::::: Opera :::::