trust me it was my idea to go IDE, but I have to admit that all the RAIDs (6 so far, running 100GB to 200GB drives) have been very stable and have hot swap via the 3ware card. And the cost for 2TB was well under 10K (USD), so had to defend SCSI cost. waiting for the full release of serial ATA for increase in transfer speed. there is one caveat though, my data on the RAID is static. once copied to the RAID it willnever be changed, just read only access. that may make some difference. later, Richard Bell MIS Director Microfilm Services, Inc. www.msifla.net rbell@xxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: David V. Dellanno [mailto:ddellanno@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 3:24 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: RE: [isalist] RE: Windows 2003 Thanks and good luck with the 3ware raid -----Original Message----- From: rbell@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rbell@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tue 4/15/2003 3:16 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Cc: Subject: [isalist] RE: Windows 2003