[RyanC]

Cool thanks. . .

I know people claim to have raid 1 or 10 working, but that sounds like an experiment to me. Ultimately I would go with a SAN if it didn't seem like a bunch of $$ that I don't really need to dedicate to that. Plus when healthy a single modern drive has plenty of bandwidth.

What's a good registry cleaner program?

I was so glad to get rid of all the kvm switches etc, but clearly while it may work fine for a while it's obviously better to have a dedicated machine. What about having your internet setup on a separate partition?

I think probably I'll just go back to two machines. So if each machine has 2 NIC's then am I safe to use a crossover cable between them, and not bridge the NICs on the one that is connected to the internet?

Thanks again-