CentOS - Nov 2005 - 3ware 9500S -8 PCI 64

I am thinking of using this controller with 8 x 80gbyte SATA drives an Raid
5, on Centos 4.x does anyone have experience of this type of setup and what
type of performance can I expect on a AMD dual 2.8Ghz MP cpu system with 2gb
ram?

Thanks

Denis