> I don't know how either of us could have made our opinions any more > clear... Just curious dude. "perform like hell" could go either way. > Don't use the 3ware/LSI SATA RAID controllers in RAID 5 or RAID 6 mode > if performance and reliability are of concern. I only use hardware RAID > because performance and reliability are my concern. I am told that the > Areca cards are much better on RAID 5/6 but I have no first hand > experience with them. While you may get better performance with > write-back caching (don't enable without a BBU), the improvement is > incremental. Stick with RAID 10. Somebody at IBM must not have gotten the memo then as the M5015/9260-8i is their top of the line on-board RAID controller. :-) -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie