Remember that RAIDs will be faster than the same amount of storage on one disk, because you're reading data in parallel. After all, that's one of the selling points of RAID (in addition to better chances of disaster recovery).

Can't tell you if your times are normal for 12+30, though - I run a single 20 (and I've never timed a fsck).
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Toby Speight
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