titan_rw, these are some spectacular numbers! Would you share the hardware of this machine, please? I'm building a 24 HDD system right now and could use some help. Thanks.Code:root@nas storage # dd if=/dev/zero of=test.bin bs=2048k count=1024k 1048576+0 records in 1048576+0 records out 2199023255552 bytes transferred in 1344.964770 secs (1,635,004,354 bytes/sec) root@nas storage # dd if=test.bin of=/dev/null bs=2048k 1048576+0 records in 1048576+0 records out 2199023255552 bytes transferred in 1146.017894 secs (1,918,838,499 bytes/sec)