> I'd prefer to buy fewer, higher-capacity drives (300+ GB). Any > experience with the new 500's? I currently have 3 of the 500GB Hitachi's in a RAID-1 configuration using linux software RAID. So far, so good. In response to someone else's question, the mostly random reads are pretty well balanced between the disks, judging from atsar reports. Adding the third drive definitely helped read performance. -Jeff - 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