[CentOS] software raid

William Warren wrote:
> as soon as you goto software raid 5 you'll get a good performance hit. 
> Head for the hardware raid cards then.  You can get the 3ware ide cards 
> for 150 or less now.

don't know if it is still the case but ext3 + 3ware + ext3 = ultra slow. 
you'd want to use XFS or some other filesystem...