oooh, will give that a go. I been formatting the sata drives as i may be selling them. This raid business really isn't my bag So i'll try it once these two have finished. Just want to see how many bad sectors they have as my mate said there were problems with them.

My IDE is coping juuuuuuuust fine

Its an AMD Athlon 3000+ 2.01GHz CPU. I'm sure there's plenty of space for some clocking. But at the momment, its very stable and very fast, so there's no point