My office has a Themis Solaris 8 server and I have a Sun280R, 2 D1000 and a 2TB RAID. THe data management guys reported a drastic slowdown in xfer speed transfering the contents from several 300Gb SCSI drives to the RAID. I mocked up my Sun280 to the same type of configuration and encountered the same behavior. I set up a 3rd test configuration using a Blade 100, a D1000 and a Arena Industrial 2TB raid. All 3 have the same dramantic slowdown. I wrote a script to mount the RAID, echo mount time, mount the first 300gb drive, echo mount time, cp the contents from the 300gb drive to the RAID, echo time when transfer is complete, unmount 300gb drive, mount the next 300gb drive echo time transfer and so on. The first 300gb transfer takes approx 2 hours, the 2 over 3 hours the 4th over 8 hours. All 3 platforms have the same behavior. The Themis in on Solaris 8. The Sun280 and Blace 100 are on Solaris 10. There seems to be a memory or buffering issue with the "cp" program and wonder if anyone else has seen this and knows of a fix. Thanks