[CentOS] quick question on RAID 1

Sat Aug 13 11:55:48 UTC 2005
Ulrik S. Kofod <usk at cybersite.dk>

I have 3 disks that I want to setup in a raid 1, my questions is should I setup the
3rd disk as a spare-disk or should I mirror all 3 disks all the time?

Will it perform *much* better to only mirror two and have the 3rd as a spare.
Is it not safer to mirror all 3 drives all the time ?