> Also, doing a dd from 4 drives maxes out my read speed as per mdstat > at 160MB/s (How? PCI is 133MB/s and according to lspci all my > controllers are on the same bus). Does vmstat lie? NO! PCI 2.3 can about 512 MB/s - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html