Stan Hoeppner put forth on 11/16/2010 6:31 PM: > Currently the only way to do this is with striped mech drives on a PMP, > or with a $500+ SSD. Let me correct that slightly. There are also host (OS) independent external RAID enclosures on the market with a real embedded RAID controller, and host connection via single or multiple lane eSATA. If using a single 3 Gb/s eSATA link with such an enclosure, with enough disks, you could easily saturate a 3 Gb/s link. Some of these may even saturate a single 6 Gb/s link depending on drive count and quality of the RAID controller. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html