Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> writes: > Your SATA disks lasted 7-8 years? That's a reasonable lifetime > for spinning disks. Replace them with more SATA disks, either > spinning or SSD. Thanks for responding. I failed to mention that those SATA disks were SSD disks so it probably makes more sense to just buy some replacement drives as the IDE-SATA adaptors are still good. Martin