Hi William, thanks a lot for all those great details. William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote on Thu, 18 Apr 2002: > For IDE solution, 8 x 120GB What about 6 x 160 GB??? > is ideal because you can use 2 channels from > the motherboard and 6 channels from Promise card. If backup is not of an > issue, then you can put 2 disks on the same IDE channels and you only need > 4 IDE channels. Wait. We got quoted 6 x 160 GB now, with the option of 12 x 160 GB in the future, so 6 bays are currently open. Do I understand it correctly that we could not backup the data if all 12 bayes were populated??? Best regards, Ivo