> > > 2007 10 5,714,045 2,632,450 So each grant is of the order of 700 grand. It depends on if the grants are capex one-off, capex on a depreciation basis or capex+opex, but for half a million quid a year over three years you could buy and operate a substantial fraction of a petabyte of disk in a MAID arrays, and a few hundred terabytes of conventional RAID (the power would get you). ian