Hello, thanks to Doug Ledford and Michael Tokarev for helping me get raid up while keeping my data! However array seems slow, my questions now Does file/partition size effect performance? Does a "missing" drive effect performance? mobo: tyan tiger 133 UDMA 66 cpu: 2x 800mhz PIII kernel: 2.6.8.1 SMP using MD driver built into kernel raid: raid-1,2disk,reiserfs (degraded only 1 disk running) disk1: maxtor maxline plus II IDE 250g, 1 250G partition disk2: maxtor maxline II IDE 250g- ntfs, future disk2 for array copy 54M file from array to array: real 0m8.886s user 0m0.004s sys 0m5.854s copy 5G folder from ntfs partition to arrary real 74m12.121s user 0m1.115s sys 6m41.242s is my partition too large? is it the degraded array? is it my IDE bus? jd - 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