To LVM or not to LVM?

Currently I have ~870GB of data on a ~960GB LVM array over five drives. I'm running CentOS 4.3 (I think) and am about to add a sixth drive (320GB). I use LVM so that it all appears as one drive and so it's easy to mount and unmount and arrange files (filesystem doesn't care where files are).

Are there any alternatives that I am not aware of that may be faster or better while being as reliable?

Drives:

2x200GB (7200.8s I think) (one SATA, one PATA)
1x320GB (Hitachi) (PATA)
1x300GB (Seagate 7200.something) (PATA)
1x120GB (Samsung) (SATA)

New drive is a 320GB Seagate 7200.10.

LVM works prety good, the biggest boost in preformance i think you would find would be changing over to 100% SATA, as for your mixture i dont think it would be possible to make it much quicker any other way.

David said:

Currently I have ~870GB of data on a ~960GB LVM array over five drives.

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S_Wilson said:

WOW! That must one killer p0rn collection.

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The question wasn't about what sort of data is there

S_Wilson said:

WOW! That must one killer p0rn collection.

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s'not porn