Hi folks.. hopefully everything will be working soon and i can get on with trying to get some backup scripts working :) I am going to stick with this software RAID for the near future if it carries on working correctly.. I was just wondering what peoples views were of software vs hardware raid... anything and everything really.. I'm not that up on all the technology... I know that 3ware have a good rep in hardware... I also imagine that for more exotic RAID configurations its obviously a help to not stress the CPU with the RAID tasks.. for me tho with simple mirroring the CPU costs are minimal.. the linux core is a sturdy base to build upon so is software raid in this way a perfectly acceptible reliable RAID solution.. Just curious.. Thanks for everyones help Jim - 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