All, i have just aquired a new Dell Poweredge 6850 with md1000 raid. It has the perc 5/i and perc 5/e. The 5/i has 1 75 gig 15k drive and the 5/e has 14 146 gig 15k drives. They are all SAS. It is going to be used as a vmware server for win2k3 guests. What would be the optimal raid setup? thanks Chris Parker