I'm working on a picture that has a lot of things imported from Rhino, and right now the polygon count is a bit over five hundred thousand. I don't mind the waiting, I don't mind it being slow, but the noises my hard drive is causing is making me nervous as hell. I have this feeling that if I keep pushing it, it's just going to go "snap!" and I'll lose everything. I have a 1.3 ghz AMD Athlon processor with 128 RAM...it's not suitable for dealing with such a high polygon count picture! I'm sure everyone here has dealt with pictures that pushed your 'puter to the limits. Is there anything I can do that might ease my hard drive a bit? A time saving method? Some in-program settings tweaks? I even had to turn off the nano-preview because it made my hard drive scream while it refreshed! Thanks.