Feizhou wrote: > chrism at imntv.com wrote: >> Feizhou wrote: >>> 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... > > argh...i missed the raid5 on 3ware part. Ah. No, I am using RAID0 since this is just scratch space for editing large uncompressed video files. Disks are so cheap and high enough capacity now that I don't even bother with RAID5 anymore. I still don't think (even if I was using RAID5) that I would stray from the "vendor supported" ext3 filesystem. Cheers,