Remember that RAIDs will be faster

Of course, and I realize that the empeg uses relatively slow laptop drives on a relatively slow bus. I am just surprised that the times increased so much going from 12G to 42G. A RAID is of course not an accurate comparison, but I was really trying to compare my empeg with a single 12G drive to my empeg with two drives and I noticed that the time increased by nearly a factor of 10.

So what I was wondering is if the second drive may be faulty or if the slowdown is because it is having to swap to fsck the larger drive or if it is something else entirely.

-Mike