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Tom – A good drive is the Micropolis 2217A 1.6 Gig IDE hard drive. This will hold up to 15 minutes of animation – although you'll be most satisfied with the throughput using only the first 2/3 of the disk. Hard Drives International, which advertises in nearly all the trades, is now offering the drive for under $900. Be sure to get the IDE, though. The PAR will only run with IDE drives (and besides, I haven't heard good things about the SCSI version of this drive in terms of reliability). Haven't seen you in one of our 3D Studio User Group meetings – keepin' busy, I suppose? Might want to drop in on us in November, we'll be demo-ing R4 and, hopefully, Razor Pro – a Windows-based non-linear digital editor that will work with native PAR files directly! Talk to you soon. bob