John R Pierce wrote: > you're going to need new motherboard, new ram, new CPUs... you really > should be looking for new SERVER. Sorry, misread. It's a tower case. And though I appreciate the advice, you are preaching to the choir. This is not my choice, nor is it my decision. I'm just doing the leg work. > your existing 5+ year old 10 ATA > drives are likely only a few 100GB or so total, organized as at least 3 > seperate raids ? (raids can't span controllers). Actually, 1 x 500GB (500GB/RAID0), 2 x 1.5TB (RAID5). Best Regards, Camron Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu Management Services of America, Inc. E-mail: cwfox at us.fujitsu.com