Thanks,

Setting the partitions took only a few seconds. I added one for installed programs that aren't OS, and the rest for shared user files/storage

I'd like to add a third hard drive for backup storage - recommend an internal or external/usb hard drive? They're pretty cheap nowadays for a few hundred GB.
I can remember being jealous of a co-worker because she got the 'good' computer with the 340mb hard drive and mine was only 180mb and something like 16mb of ram

But when I snuck the upgrade Windows For Workgroups 3.11 onto my pc (what's security?) it flew!

This server is a dual quad core xeon with 4gb of ram, PERC 5/i controller card and 500gb of HD
