> I have test hardware with 20 drives and it appears to behave > nicely and I'm getting much better throughput from software > RAID than the Dell PERC hardware Have you tracked your CPU load? That is one thing that has kept me from going back to software RAID. -- C. R. Oldham Director of Technology NCA CASI - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html