Well it is grat that I can use my hard drive as an external one by using a hard drive case. What also interests me is the dual boot setup, and how does raid work I know there is an option to set it up when windows is being installed. I also noticed that my computer takes longer to boot now that I have a second hard drive. I would have asked these questions sooner however I ran into a series of unfortunate events initiating the answers to these questions on my own/