Anup Shukla wrote: > So finally, i am putting a 300G SATA to act as the "system" drive. > Then use the other 750G's to be the big RAID 5 Volume (XFS) If you use a hardware RAID adapter, you can make two LUNs from the disks. So make one big RAID5 array but two logical drives. I would still use LVM anyway for management down the road. Not all hardware RAID adapters might support this, but if yours does you will get data protection for "free" on your system drive. //Morten