Scott Silva wrote: >>> >> I wonder if you guys might have different firmware revs. Or my machine could have just been having a hissy fit, on soft reboot. Things go awry with tech all the time, not worth worrying about. :) >> The 9550 allegedly has better performance for RAID5 so I'm hoping those >> work out OK. >> > I had to use the 9500's because of the servers they were put in. They are too > old for PCI-X. ...and mine has been around for awhile, a 9550 that fit the bill wasn't a reality. I would love the better performance, but this is just a backup-to-disk machine so it can take all night/day for what I care. Here are two sample stat numbers out of Arkeia NetBackup that are from last night. First, tons and tons of small files, so lots of network overhead and whatnot: "879073" files, "1045" MB, compressed at "1.3", "4008" seconds, "15" MB/mn Then a few very large files, so it's all streaming and writing to disk in a continuous flow over a single 100mbit link: "5" files, "7333" MB, compressed at "2.0", "368" seconds, "1195" MB/mn -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com