On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:01:48PM -0400, Milan Budimirovic wrote: > > Unless you're really and truly strapped for cash, I would recommend > getting a hardware SATA RAID controller. You can get a 4-channel Adaptec > for about $125, I believe. For that price I suspect that card is not hardware raid, but HostRaid. AKA proprietary software RAID. There are advantages to Linux software RAID. It is less expensive. The RAID is not tied to a specific hardware card and can be mounted in any system with a SATA controller. Only many systems there will be little difference in performance. -- sg