> These are very low values. A modern 250G drive should exceed > 50MB/sec. What kind of IDE controller do you use? None of it is very modern - it's put together from what we had lying around :-( (Don't even start..) I'll see if it's any different when the array is reconstructed. John - 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