In article <f7iufv$1cc$1 at softins.clara.co.uk>, Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.clara.co.uk> wrote: > > My question is: which kind of configuration will generally give me better > performance? To use the IHC7 RAID-1 as currently set up, or to use Linux > software RAID-1 as I am used to doing? Any other reasons to choose one > over the other? Thanks for the responses, confirming what I thought: disable SATA RAID and use Linux software RAID for mirroring. So that's what I've done. It appears that my Centos 4.4 install didn't know about dmraid devices anyway. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org