Thanks for the reply. I read the article I'm not sure what other information is needed.

I thought it was very straight forward that the INSERT INTO was the problem.

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Thanks for you quick responses.

I would of thought that SQL Server, would take advantage of the logical drive seperation.

So if I used a SANS, I should only have one drive...

Thank you, for you replies. I understand that shrinking the database causes performance problems but this database has a lot of large tables. The current database size is...