At 17:05 23/05/2004, you wrote: >I've got my eye on a Samsung SP1213N - what do you reckon ? >Any good or no ? Never had any problems with Samsung, so I'd say go ahead. You can be our guinea pig. :) The last drives I bought were Seagate 7200.7 - 3 160Gb ones running in RAID5 off a Highlypointless RocketRAID454. The 7200.7 definately looks like a cheap knock-off of the Barracuda IV/V - gone is the Seashield so they run quite a bit louder. Andrew