Hi Nikosony,

Thank you for your feedback. I am not sure if it has a firewire, I just assumed that they all did these days, I better double check, as that would be very dissappointing.

Apparently I need Vista Business if I want to network other computers later as Vista home does not have that function.

They have provided 4 harddrives because they are setting up some sort of redundancy, as with the config I have a total of 2TB but in actual fact I only have 1TB, I believe that if one hard drive goes down I will still be able to use the computer (75% capacity) and as it is constantly mirroring the work I do, so loss of footage etc will hopefully be redundant. I believe it is a real time back up. I am not sure whether they will be partitioned. They also said that an external hardrrive is not real time back up, although I like the idea that it is not connected full time.
I sound neurotic, I think it is because I lost so much last time when my system just died that the thought of going through that again makes me over the top this time.