On 2014-09-02, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > And my manager has taken a fancy to raw drives; not sure why. Some reasons have already been cited in this thread. No reasons are given, but the author of md and mdadm apparently prefers raw drives too. https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Partition_Types I think the take-home message from that document is: "There is no right answer - you can choose." --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us