thanks for that, stewar. Hopefully everyone reading this in the future will listen to you very very carefully. Luckily I am already aware because of another Raid-0 deployment that the client learned the hard way the cost of disregarding my advice. He comes to me with one drive fried..."But we have everything on the other drive, right?...." That was a rueful day. This is another reason I am going with the smaller Raptors....to discourage the saving of anything vital on them! Do any of you have any opinion on this: to get maximum speed, is it better to Raid-0 and just throw Poser,Runtime,OS and swapfile on the Raid volume, or is better to NOT Raid-0 and carefully put the swapfile on it's one Raptor all by itself (With the OS, Poser and Runtime on the other?) Do I (gasp) actually need three drives? ::::: Opera :::::