Now as to choosing the hard disk, I would go with typical UDMA hard disks 8.4 Gb, the faster ones (66Mhz) are too expensive for this purchase). In the past Seagate got bad reputation, and I could say that I would go only with IBM or WD, but I'm not sure that this is still valid. I can now choose between Seagate and WD, and initially I tend to go with WD, but wish to hear few more views. A friend of mine recently took his UDMA 12.0 gig WD Caviar drive out of his PII-450 system (192 mb) and replaced it with a Quantum 7200 rpm UDMA 20 gig drive (he paid around $225 or so) and he reports that his boot time has gone from 30 seconds to 20 seconds. This sounds like a pretty impressive gain to me, Quantum is growing up, I think. -Peter Ramins PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html