Dear Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, In message <1430936688.3381175.1589485881380.JavaMail.zimbra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > what? You asked: "Try checking with iostat -x to see if one disk is performing worse than the other ones." The output of "iostat -x" which I posted shows clearly that all disk behave very much the same - there are just minimal statistic fluctuations, but agail equally distributed over all 8 disks. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx I used to be indecisive, now I'm not sure.