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...I addressed this adequately above. > My experience is that the U320 SCSI will easily give the same throughput but > with substatianlly lower CPU usage if you use software RAID. I compared a $15,000 SCSI RAID system with the $2,500 AMD based 3WARE RAID5 system. True, the CPU load on the dual MP1600 was a little higher than on the more expensive brand name system, but at what cost difference?? Also, the 3WARE IDE RAID system ran rings around the brand name system when considering the total aggregate I/O delivered over 1Gb etherenet to the clients. That is after all what the clients care about...