Sure wish I could edit my posts, forgot this: The old DSS hardware won't boot V7 due to minimum specs, hence my trying last four builds and swapping parts all around. Part of the reasoning in buying the newer Optiplex 780 is that it still has a PCI connector so I could possibly move that SiI RAID card with four SATA drives over to it, and hopefully DSS 7 will just see the old DSS 6 SW RAID.