bonjour! I was going thrugh the thread I am also in the processing of deciding weither to procurz H/W raid, One significant matter would be performances of the systems, CPU utilization is an important issue as the workload involved lots of CPU. but unfortunately for me there is no relative benchmarks to convince peoples about the workload and performance comparison. If somebody has done this comparitive study it would greatly be of help to me. merci :) jeane - 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