> I've seen cheap FC drives floating around, but I suspect > there must be a hidden cost somewhere.. Don't most of those > drives use SCA backplanes? > That can't be cheap. There's a company that makes SCA connectors that convert to a standard ethernet cable. You can get a whole fiberchannel setup running over standard ethernet cable at 1Gb/sec. I forgot the name of the company though and I'm too lazy to look for their site right now. Your best bet is to get a good IDE raid card, there are some nice 4 channel cards out there for fairly cheap. ATA 133 drives are cheap, and raided together can actually outperform ultra160 scsi (just look at the new Apple Xserve boxes). A friend of mine has a 4 channel card with 8 120GB ATA133 drives on it, and it works sweet. If you don't have enough room in your current machine, you could get a cheap MB and a big case and just set it up as a fileserver (using Samba, WebDAV, or NFS). If you *need* Gigabit speeds to it, Gigabit ethernet cards are only around $40 each, and you can connect your workstation directly to the fileserver using a crossover cable to avoid having to buy a switch with GigE on it. Jay