If you use Amazon AWS cloud services you definitively want to utilize software raid for IO intensive stuff such as database data directories and the like.
Here's how you create it:
sudo mdadm --create -f /dev/md0 --chunk=256 --level 10 --raid-devices 4 /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh /dev/sdi
/dev/md0
using mkfs*-toolsMake sure the last line in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
looks like that
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid0 num-devices=4 metadata=00.90 UUID=1234567893:abcdef:123