On 1/28/06, Luke Lonergan <llonergan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You should check your disk performance, I would > expect you'll find it lacking, partly because you are running RAID10, but > mostly because I expect you are using a hardware RAID adapter. hmm .. do i understand correctly that you're suggesting that using raid 10 and/or hardware raid adapter might hurt disc subsystem performance? could you elaborate on the reasons, please? it's not that i'm against the idea - i'm just curious as this is very "against-common-sense". and i always found it interesting when somebody states something that uncommon... best regards depesz