Yes, that's what I got.

I was anxious about using RAID0 because of the loss of everything if a drive crashes. I had long discussions with my tech advisors (my husband who's an IT professional, and my son who's a 14 year-old computer prodigy) They convinced me that the speed I could get with RAID would make a huge difference to my editing. Drives don't crash all that often (famous last words?) And I should be backing everything up anyway. At least spindles of CDs are pretty cheap if you look around for sales, so I will be doing weekly backups of everything.

You're right about the firewire. I have a SYBA PCI multimedia combo card I bought to try to get firewire in a different system but that system had other problems and I didn't wind up using it, so we've installed it in the new machine. Hopefully it will work. My son built my system yesterday and when he gets home from his Social Studies exam this afternoon we'll start loading drivers and programmes and see what happens.

Is anyone familiar with the SYBA multimedia card? Is it just a firewire conduit to the system, or does it have other features? Is it any good? I did some research on it back when I bought it and it sounded good, but every manufacturer will say their product is great and I was under huge time pressure...

Thanks for the advice!

Nora