Hi Sevrin, Are you sure all the disks are working OK? We saw a problem here with a 4-disk SATA array. The array was working without errors but was _very_ slow. When we checked each disk individually, we found one disk was reporting SMART errors and running slow. We removed it and replaced it with a new disk and the RAID array ran at full speed again. Further tests on the removed disk found that it was having a lot of problems but just about hanging in there (although taking a long time for each operation) - hence the RAID array didn't mark it as faulty. I would check the SMART logs with smartctl to see if anything looks a bit wrong and try benchmarking the disks individually too. - Roger - 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