But Raid 1 does not speed you up. Better to teach home users about proper backup REGARDLESS OF CONFIG than advise them that a totally valid solution to Poser speed is bad. "I am running 1Gb of RAM. The disk is not an issue in any of my renders, unless I'm multi-tasking with another program." Either this is theoretical, or you are successful in your setup when others are not. All the threads I have participated in...no matter how much RAM you have, Poser STILL swaps out to virtual memory A LOT no matter what you do. This is infuriating and counter-intuitive; one would think that if you put up a lot of RAM, Poser would stay in RAM until pegged out. But this is not the case. I render quite low density scenes, like one naked low-res EJ and complex hair with light props in 3-minute renders. This is for animation. I have 4Gig Ram. My RAID-0 array thrashes the whole time, and watching in the task master window, I am pushing RAM usage up to only about 800MB. If you can teach me how to make Poser NOT THRASH, but rather make use of another 1.2 GIG RAM, I would be grateful. ::::: Opera ::::: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 4Gig RAM 2 x 37G Raptor in RAID-0 as working director 250 External Firewire drive, primary storage, backed up with DVD including frequent off-site. XP Pro SR2