Thanks Shas3,

This is a reporting db and I have additional backups on the VAX/Alpha platform. My mission-critical dbs use separate drives to store the data, the logs, and the backups.

Loading is done once per week overnite so I/O is not a consideration.

I am just trying to find out why the datafiles grow to 31 - 38% when I set them to grow at 10% for one filegroup and 20MB for the other one.

I am finding nothing in the MS Knowledge Base or SQL BOL.