>And stick with md-raid 10 (also known as software raid) because it is >much more intelligently designed than any >closed-source-embedded-raid-controller. Pretty strong opinion that would be disputed by many don't you think? I would venture to say that any large system involved in SLA's with 5 9's etc would have very good equipment all using hardware based controllers. Not to mention you just invalidated almost every SAN in production which would be many :) jlc