Greetings I've searched to no avail so far... there is bound to be something more intelligible out there...??? I am playing with bonnie++ for the first time... May I please get some advise and list experience on using this or other disk subsystem benchmark programs properly with or without a GUI ? Test system in this case is a Compaq DL360 with 2 to 4 Gig DRAM and qty (2) 36Gig 10k drives in hardware raid1 (raid1 default 128k) and a smart array 5304 controller with 128 meg dram The machine screams with this controller... yet I want to compare tests with it to the standard built in smart array controller etc Ive read bonnie++ stuff till I cant stand it no more and am just not seeing the relevance in the end result vectors to something tangible. Please advise and thanks in advance... - rh -- Robert - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net