Configuring an older server for speed...

[Wojciech Puchar]

> be using as a squid box.
>
> I've configured two drives as RAID 1 with the third as a hot spare,
> and two drives as RAID0 - I intend to put the squid cache on the
> latter, and have mounted it as /squid.

it would be better to turn off RAID at all and use all five disks as 
fine squid partitions.

use diskd "driver" in squid.

add any used IDE drive for system.

should go fine on it. squid is fast, if configured right.