> > Yes, slow cpu's and chips can cripple performance, I have many p120's here > with 100+ gig drives in them, that are limited to about 10 meg a second. Just curios, do you attach the (100GB+) disk to the mobo ide or do you use an external (relative new ATA-xx) card? I wonder what the pci bridge etc can do in that old machines. Oh, and how much load does diso io put in the cpu ? Best regards, Emil