I was planning on putting one of the excellent 3ware 6410 ide raid controllers in a server here, but now that 3ware has suddenly and inexplicably decided to discontinue their entire line of ide raid ...

I have 3 1 TB HDDs and 3 500 GB HDDs. Right now each size grouping is in a RAID 5, both of which are in an LVM volume group (with striped LVs). I'm finding this to be too slow for my usage on small ...