those are some nice numbers, however, the fact that you cant boot a soft array just totally ruins it for me. i just have no use for a non-boot array personally. even though i have toyed with some passthrough soft array on the 9211 with five devices and five on a 9260 as the boot. uber fast to say the least

tbh that cpu usage you are showing with that is shocking! wow 78 percent! ive never seen ICH kick off utilization like that with a soft array, however, i havent toyed with it too much....but that number seems abnormally high to me.

does your mobo have the NF200? seems like some motherboards and the nf200 do not mix AT ALL with the 9260...like kryptonite on the classified e759