Alright guys, I think with all of your help I have a system picked out. I wont waste space posting it for review just yet as I wanted to know should I run raid if I am running a SSD for OS. For the price of a Tera I could easily get two 500. Would it be benificial to run the SSD, and two 500 in a raid configuration? I was thinking of running raid 1 for backups. To clarify, raid1 will back everything I do up bit for bit yes? In other words I would feel quite safe that as long as I save a file, I will have it if one hdd fails?