i think i'm gonna snap one day, get 2 raid 5 cards, 12 200gb IDE harddrives, 2 48x burners, 2 16x dvd drives, and 2 52x cdrom drives, and split them up between my 2 computers. hopefully, this will be the end all solution storage space. the non harddrive related stuff i can do right now for ~266, but my next upgrade would be the 12 200gb harddrives on raid 5. it should net me 1600gb with redundancy and speed. then again, technology is just starting to reveal itself, and 200gb harddrives is just the beginning. maybe i'll hold off.