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Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> Basically, I have 5x72G drives ... I'd *love* to do RAID5 with them, but 
> that doesn't appear to be available right now

Maybe you could try geom_raid3 instead? It's pretty nice, especially for 
databases. The only caveat is that you cannot boot off it if you use all 
the drives. Maybe raid3(3 drives for data)+mirror(2 disks for system) 
will be useful to you (since you can boot a mirrored drive).

(note that geom_raid3 is not RAID3 as theoretically defined, but more 
like RAID4).