whitehall, i've had 2 74 gig raptors and 2 150 gig raptors. i've used them as individual drives and in a raid array. in my opinion, if you're not running them in a raid array, you're wasting your money getting one. buy another 500 gig drive and raid them.
If I'm reading his JUMBLEDUPWORDS correctly, he's got a 64 bit machine, and should be able to put a lot of memory in it. He may see a bigger performance boost by increasing the amount of RAM in his system than by spending a lot of money on another hard drive for a RAID array.
. . . but that's just my humble opinion. From the looks of it, he's set for a while with a pretty good system.
. . . and why in the world are people talking so much about the "Q6600" or whatever numbers? Ever since Intel released their Core 2s, this number has all of the sudden become Very Important™, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. Does the number of cores suddenly become 8 and the number of GHz jump to 6 just because you buy a brand new J1234400? I don't get it. Even when the number of cores and the GHz is the known, they
still want to know what that number is. Why does it really matter?