> Additionally I can confirm as I also have several lsi cards and all perform like hell in r5/6 > even with bbu. Is that the "fast as hell" or "slow as hell" kind? I ask because I have a couple of IBM M5015 (rebranded LSI 9260-8i) controllers that I run in RAID-10 and as I'm somewhat on a budget for disks (coming home with $1200 worth of 15k SAS drives will get me shot) I'd rather run a RAID-5/6 array if the performance degradation is minimal. And yes, mine do have the BBU. ;-) Not that the performance of an 8x80GB SATA-300 array is much to write home about in the first place, but for my purposes it works fine. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie