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No, its not.


My mistake. I did a search for Dell 8200 and found a bunch of laptops.

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Currently all four PCI slots are filled, sound card, NIC, TV tuner and firewire card.


That's a problem if you want a hardware RAID solution. It appears that if you're using Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you can have software RAID-1. If you want software RAID-5, you'll need Windows Server (either 2000 or 2003). See this page at microsoft.com.

It seems that if you want external storage, your best option is an external Firewire or USB drive (although, if the PC is 4 years old, it'll be USB1, so it won't be as quick as USB2).

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Has both a DVD and CD-ROM (can one of these be swapped for an additional HD?)


Yep. As long as they're IDE/ATAPI drives (and they most probably are).
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