Nice vid, Napalm! Thanks...
turning off all those apps, looks tiresome, I wouldn't have the nerves.
You need a shutdown script to run in parallel!
And maybe one of these new LSI cards under your Christmas tree: http://www.lsichannelgateway.com/new.../20090728.html "performance with up to 2.88 GB/s in sequential reads and 1.87 GB/s in sequential writes"