Chris Mauritz wrote: > Dual Opteron 270 (4 cores total) > 2gig RAM > OS on a standalone 80gig SATA disk > 3Ware 9550SX with 8 x 500gig Seagate 7200rpm SATA drives > (firmware is now 3.0.8.00.016) > > The RAID device is configured as a large RAID0 device (it's mostly > scratch uncompressed video and other temporary data) and is formatted as > an EXT3 filesystem. According to bonnie++ (with a data set of 4GB), I > was seeing writes around 325mb/sec and reads around 430mb/sec. quite nice! Think I might go around and upgrade a few of our machines too then :) thanks -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq