Thanks, Tony, that's good info. I may stay away from RAID now and just do what I've always done - get the latest and biggest drive I can.

Really, I'm not sure why I was worried about it all. I've always had great luck with drive stability (*knocks on wood repeatedly*), most of my data isn't incredibly valuable, and the little that is gets backed up to DVD+RW every so often.

Question for you folks: what, if any, kind of power saving options do you guys use? I keep my machine on 24/7, and I'm just wondering if/when I should tell my disks to spin down.