Anton, Thanks for the info - I appreciate the help. Are there any step-by-step guides for IOMeter to test the network and disk? I have messed with it a little, but since I'm not a storage guru I hate to spend a ton of time learning it for this one instance. Also, do you know if anyone is keeping a p...

Hello, I have installed the trial version on an IBM X-Series with a 3ghz Pentium D processor, 2GB of ram, 1GB Broadcom NIC, and 4x500GB Sata drives (lets call this BOX-A). The opertating systems is Win2008R2. When I run HDTune against the local RAID 5 array I get about 100MB/sec write and 135MB/sec ...