thanks for the replys richard... I certainly wasnt just assuming it would work based on something like a read throughput benchmark lol... glad to hear that you have been testing them... that takes a little pressure off of me... that drive adapter is great and I have allready purchased the exact model u suggested... seems to be the best option. Question for you Richard: have you ever run content off of a ramdisk created on the machine? aot of the content we run is small in file size so I tried it last night.. interesting results. Anyways.. appreciate your very high level of dedication and support for your product Richard!