Scott Ehrlich wrote: > What are my best options? The mere thought of doing what your tasked with doing makes me want to drink a lot of hard alcohol. As another poster noted get a more proper storage system. If it were me I would just hook the drives to one of the existing windows servers and use dynamic partitions to do the same thing, when a disk fails and they lose some/most/all of their data at least they won't be able to point the finger at linux http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363785(VS.85).aspx There are plenty of low cost off the shelf NAS solutions, I don't have experience with any of them personally, but would absolutely positively never implement what your being tasked with. That client would not be worth keeping as they are obviously a @#$ idiot. nate