>Hi Howard.
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>Ed made some wonderful suggestions. However, I would recommend you setup your hard drives in a RAID 10 (RAID 1+ RAID 0) configuration. It is faster than any other RAID configuration, especially on READS. The only drawback is that you have to buy double the amount of hard drives because of the mirroring (RAID 1) aspect. But, compared to the benefit the extra drives are well worth it! Frankly, drives aren't that expensive. BTW - RAID 0 is striping. RAID 10 requires at least four drives. Also, if you use six drives it will be faster than four drives, eight fasterr than six and so on. It's due to the striping - the more drives you use the better the performance on a stripe.
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>Of course, use a high-quality RAID controller with plenty of on-board RAM - do not use the OS to do the mirroring.
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>Bill

Thanks - I'll check with the network guys to see if they can/will set this up.