On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:20:51PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > I don't like the sound of *that*. RAID 5 done in software can be > dreadfully slow. Buy two drives and do a RAID 10, or stick with RAID 1. If you do only have three drives, add it to the raid1 array.