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Doing drive benchmarks is really difficult; the numbers that follow are rough estimates. Years ago, I had 2 100 GB WD HDs in RAID0 and was only getting about 70MB/s. In the last year I put together a new system, now out of HD space, and I'm getting less than 100 MB/s which is still slow...

Also, can XP see an array >2TB?

Good idea, system specs: -WinXP Pro with SP2 -ENERMAX Liberty ELT500AWT ATX12V 500W Power Supply -AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Toledo 2.4GHz running at 3GHz -DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard -2 Gig PC2700 (4x512GB), Infineon Tech -BFG Tech...

Question on the 5-in-3 enclosure, I could connect the 4 HDs of the enclosure to one x4 interal port on the RAID controller, and leave the 5th HD in the 5-in-3 to act as a mobile dock? It looks like each HD in the enclosure has it's own independent connection? I still want to use a few drives...

OK, make that three 5.25" bays. I actually read the specs!

ddrueding, thanks! Great suggestions, very reasonable. I haven't seen the hotswap enclosures installed, do they just fit into two 5.25" external bays? My thoughts were to use an external solution mainly to deal with heat issues. I overclock, and I've gone as far as I can with an air cooled...

Looking for comments or suggestions on the following: OS would be WinXP or Vista, CPU is 3GHz dual core Seriously considering doing this: http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/enhance/e8/ 1) HighPoint RocketRaid 2322 (mix of software and hardware RAID) - no RAID 6 option 2)...