>> ...that said, it's not much worse than the competetion, storage simply >> sucks ;-( > > So you are saying people dole out huge amounts of money for rubbish? > That the software raid people were and have always been right? Depends what the software raid people were saying. :) Hardware & Software RAID have their places. We use HW RAID exclusively in our shop (SMB w/ multiple sites and I'm the sole tech.) but that's because I can't always be on-site when drives die so it's nice to know I can be out of town for a few days and if a drive packs it in the RAID system in our IBM servers is plug & play. I get the alert, call our vendor, and he shows up 9am next morning with a replacement drive. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie