On 3/5/2013 4:27 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > The question is why are you using raid at all? indeed. the primary justification for the "R" in RAID, Redundant, is high availability. having the OS on a non-raid volume completely violates this. RAID is most definitely NOT a substitute for backups. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast