Thanks for that! I haven't have enough time to consider this.. greetings, sebastian > Two performance suggestions. > > 1. Consider two RAID-1 arrays: hde+hdg (41MB) and hdi+hdk (80MB) which > would give much better performance over RAID-5 and lower failure > probability without giving up any storage capacity. > > 2. Set the P2B BIOS to have both promise controllers on IRQ 14 which is > unused in your system (remember to disable the primary motherboard IDE and > you may have to rearrange PCI slot positions). This will give much better > interrupt performance than having the controllers sharing USB and mouse > interrupt cycles. > > Rgds, > tim - 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