Lyle Schlueter <lyle@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Do you know of any concerns of using all the ports on a motherboard? > Slowdowns or anything like that? More likely the opposite. But it depends on how the chips are connected. On desktop boards the onboard chip is in the north and/or southbridge and has a better connect to the ram than the addon controlers can ever hope for. On server boards the situation is likely the same. MfG Goswin - 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