[Zeitgeist]

Read some of the reviews on Newegg about the Drobo. I suggest something where you have more control.

Then just implement some form of external storage.

I never really considered the Drobo because of it's price...It's just overpriced for what it is!

Nevermind its limitations.. But then again, I'm hardly a normal user with a 12 port 3ware SATA RAID controller...

 

[Zeitgeist]

If your sound card is new it should have a connection to your video card so that it will pass the audio through the HDMI cable however if it does not you will still have to pass the audio via SPIDF or Coax from the sound cards digital out and you will not get the uncompressed audio from BluRay (if your getting a BD drive) using that route.

One good tip to remember --- is some new HDMI video cards *disable* the onboard audio in the BIOS when they're installed.

You can still re-enable it in the BIOS usually...... but if you're testing it's good to still have audio UNTIL you go HDMI only.