Quoting Ming Zhang <mingz@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > will this 24 port card itself will be a bottleneck? > > ming Since the card is PCI-X the only bottleneck on it might be the Processor since it is shared with all 24 ports. But I do not know for sure without testing it. I personally am going to stick with the new 16 port version. Which is a PCI- Express card and has twice the CPU power. Since there are so many spindles it should be pretty darn fast. And remember that even tho the drives are 150MBps they realistically only do about 25-30MBps. Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com - 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