Ok, so here's my latest and greatest thoughts on this hardware....

I will have spent over $1000 on this little box with 32GB of RAM by the time all is said and done. I have a UPS connected to my computer, with the ANS-9010 connected to a second power supply. I bought one of those IDE/SATA to USB convert kits and used the power supply for the ANS-9010. The cord comes in through the back of the computer to the ANS-9010. This gives me UPS power to the drive and it has power even when the computer is off. There is a power supply kit you can buy for it, but it costs $30 and my idea is identical to theirs but less expensive. The internal battery lasts about 2.5 hours if the box loses external power.

This drive is my boot drive. I installed the software that usually has alot of boot time loading requirements like Yahoo IM, MSN IM, Defrag(defragmenting this drive is essentially pointless), Antivirus, etc. Any other software that doesn't have high boot loading requirements I install onto my 1TB drive. My boot times have suffered very little from this method. Even with all of my software installed my boot times are less than 1 minute. It's still so much fun to load Windows and watch all of the programs in the toolbar load in seconds. I also have a Gigabyte I-RAM card with 4GB of RAM on it. I chose to use the I-RAM as a swapfile location.

I am quite impressed with the performance of this box. Being that I had money to throw at it, I find it a worthwhile investment(I could have spent it on alot more things that do less for me). I can't help but wonder if this was really worth the $1000 I'll spend on it. I don't really do video editing, or any of the stuff that would see the biggest performance boost from this drive. It's for my workstation that I do everything on from games to programming to Office related work. I will say that I do not fear the 5 minute reboots like I used to.

This box is amazing, but I would venture to say that 2GB sticks would have probably sufficed for my goal.

This box is definitely not for those with small pocketbooks. These things are not cheap to set up, and there is a higher probability of losing one's data since the box losing power = wiped drive.