Christopher Smith <csmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: [...] > The components are 12x400GB drives attached to a 3ware 9500s-12 > controller. They are configured as "single disks" on the controller, > ie: no hardware RAID is involved. A quick question for you, because I have a client looking at 3ware RAID hardware at the moment: Why are you running this as software RAID, rather than using the hardware on the 3ware card? >From everything I have heard, 3ware hardware RAID doesn't suck, so if you have a good reason to avoid it I would love to hear it (and possibly save my client trouble and/or money...) Daniel - 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