where where???? lol its not a waste of $$$$$ if your having fun!!!! and i like to have allot of fun!!!!! :banana::metal: ....SATA drives are cheap as fuck right now (7200rpm's that is , NOT the raptors 10,000) bought 2 250gig sata 300kb/s drives for like 140 bucks, instant raid (FUN), thats all the cost for me on this .....my MB had the drivers for raids 0,1,5, and 0+1, so i said WTF PUTTY...i agree, most would not bother with this for home use, but as stated above, i just like to play and see what i can actually do with a 'puter ....it was a HUGE speed boost though, i cant wait to get 3 striped together!!! i do all my work on the raid drive then just either burn to a dl dvd or put on another drive (non raid)....shit i got 1.3 TB of space on my home system, and thats just for fun :metal: i wanna build a HTPC!!!!!