Hey Doug, I have a comment about the last line of your message -- 'Then again, if this is too much of an "edge case", I will just keep my patches in-house.' As the use of SSD's in RAID configurations becomes more common, and SSD's become faster, the case you're talking about will be a major issue preventing customers from getting all that they expect from the equipment they purchased. I would encourage you to continue pursuing better performance. Bob Kierski Senior Storage Performance Engineer Cray Inc. 380 Jackson Street Suite 210 St. Paul, MN 55101 Tele: 651-967-9590 Fax: 651-605-9001 Cell: 651-890-7461 ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{����w��ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f