Paul were going to own this regardless of where we live. between you steve and my hdd setups alone. FYI you were the one that got all of is us into the hdd crap in the 1st place. We need to get chew on the hdd game. I know he would have a blast with it. he is old school and benches with ide which is for pci clocking but imagine if he had a state of the art raid card and hdd raid setup he could pull into once in windows. you would see pcmark WRs/ paul he is the equivalent of how you are with hdd benches. he spends all night no sleep and learns every setting.

Im on my 24/7 rig typing this and im on a spare raptor and it feels like a snail compared to my ssd raid lsi set. but i need them for the contest.

PAul this is your time to shine buddy and its time for you to really throw down. Paul we are counting on you. you paved the way for hard drive performance for xs and beyond and if anyone can win this for the team you are it. what hardware do you have to work with as far and boards and cpu's?