Hi again, So I did my dd read test of my 24MB file on a simple two brick stripe. Nothing fancy. Two bricks and the stripe define on the server side. Client side mounts the remote stripe. Default block size, 128KB. No difference between that and my single brick test as far as time goes. What's striping supposed to get me? I thought it was drives heads. Or am I missing something again? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Johnson |Internet: johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Systems Administrator |Web: http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~johnson NMR Center |Voice: 617.726.0949 Mass. General Hospital |FAX: 617.726.7422 149 (2301) 13th Street |Survival, all by it self, isn't worth it. Charlestown, MA., 02129 USA | Me -------------------------------------------------------------------------------