Feizhou spake the following on 3/29/2007 8:42 AM: > 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... I just put in some 9550SX's to replace some very crappy Adaptec 2810SA's and they seem to scream. Maybe the Adaptecs were even worse. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!