On Jan 12, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Gene Brandt wrote: > Hey I've been watching the thread on and off. How large in the file > system you are trying to share? What will it / they be used? Home dirs which are low/medium bandwidth and other low bandwidth data. Basically 3 individual NFS exports. Currently served off an Xserve(s)/Xraid(s) so this new server will be a boost in both reliability, performance and simplicity in terms of management. And the parity calcs for Raid 6 are taking quite some time, almost twice as long as Raid 5, but then again its more robust. I'm not overly concerned with performance as it will be leaps above what we have now. What I require is reliable bulk storage. - aurf