heh. All Im saying gmat is that with the most recent IDE drives, if you run your drives on a separate bus , you will find the difference between SCSI and IDE to be much less noticeable. Thats all. Plus IDE Raid is something I mentioned in passing and only comes up if you need to use many disks. The moment your IDE drives share a bus, (especially OS/application/swap) thats when performance goes downhill. And my opinion applies to me at the end of the day and the choices I make, and was not meant to criticise your choice.. Heck.. I wouldnt mind it if I could afford it
