Man what a great read! firstly, bookmark. I could use some direct advice if anyone is willing, some of the terms are a little over my head but i think i get the jist of the advice here. Here's my system now: Single HyperThreaded P4 4 gigs RAM :( (i thought this would help) 1 10,000rpm Serial ATA HD 36gigs (my mobo will hold 1 more so RAID0) Two IDE big harddrives slower but big. Right now, my ATA Serial hardrive is my C drive, it holds my WinXP. Because the drive is small, i put my poser content on the D and E drive (IDEs) So for pure speed, (i like to use Max while Poser is rendering) I should add an exact duplicate of my new ATA Serial drive and set up a RAID 0 right? The drives brand new so i can always get another one. Also, should this RAID 0 hold my Poser runtime content vs the D&E drives? I don't mind waiting for content to load from the library initially, i just want to preview it really fast for animation and of course render faster. I would try the whole partition thing as advised above but not really sure how this works with the RAID. Any advice would be most appreciated, thanks for this thread! jtrue