My 250gb*3 software raid5 takes literally days, but I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with the install. I'm switching to the USB enclosures mentioned in another post for the hotswapability and the ability to add them without extra IDE cards.

Anyone have a good guide to linux software raid (preferably on debian, or distribution agnostic)? I got through the setup enough to make it work when I set up the last array, but I'd like to Do It Right this time with everything optimized.

Matthew