Before you install the OS, you'll have to configure the RAID array from the BIOS. When you've done that, you install the OS. The RAID array presents itself to the OS as a SCSI disk, so you'll have to install the drivers during the OS install - don't forget to press F6 in the first (text-based) part of the setup! But maybe everything has already been configured when you get the machine. Easy to check: just go to the disk manager and look whether the OS sees one disk or two. Be sure to check this, one of my previous rigs was assembled by the store, I definitely specified a Raid-0 config, but they hadn't configured the BIOS. So I had to reconfigure the drives and reinstall the OS. Do not trust computer sellers to do it right! The OS sees the array as a single drive. Just partition it like you would a normal drive. I'd recommend one partition of about 8-10 Gb for the OS plus swapfile, one partition for your applications, one partition for data, and one for images. The image partition should be FAT32. A nice trick is to redirect the Documents and Settings from the OS partition to the data partition, that way you won't lose data when (not if!) the OS becomes really corrupted. Swap file: usually 1.5 times physical RAM is recommended, but there's a maximum of 4 Gb. I've set both min and max to 4 Gb on my newest rig. Set min and max to the same value, that prevents fragmentation. There is no way to place something on "just one" disk of the array. Each and every file will be divided evenly among the drives - that's also the reason that a single drive failure will be the end of ALL your files. For Poser: multiple runtimes is definitely recommended. These multiple runtimes don't have to be subfolders of the main Poser folder, they don't even have to be on the same drive - or machine, it also works over a network. Not recommended, you want runtimes on the fastest medium you've got! Hope this helps, Steven.

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