> Dean Anderson wrote: > I notice that you can get 250Gig disks now for under $400. What kind of crap would that be? 7200 RPM IDE drives? With a Promise raid maybe (great product for a home PC btw). Not the kind of stuff I put in my mission-critical servers and I don't put big drives either as a RAID-10 array of smaller (36gig) 15KRPM is what brings speed. > 2 Disks make 1 500Meg volume. By my count 500 Megs is 28 disks @$350 ea which is $10k. Plus 4 hot-swap enclosures with RPS @$2.5k ea $10k more. Now I need to back it up, takes 3 ultrium drives @ $6k ea is $18k more. Backup Exec Raid option: $600 2x 64-bit RAID card: $5k 500 gigs = $45K as of today. Michel.