> One point. Hardware raid (and faux hardware raid) provides real hot swap with on-the-fly rebuilds. > Linux software raid can't (yet). umm. That's surprising. My software raid arrays running on dell powervault 221s scsi boxes with adaptec 39160 controllers are hotswappable and when I put in a new disk and add it to the array it resyncs on the fly. Are you just talking about ide-based raid? -sv - 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