Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Thanks to all the later answers. I've read them all and appreciate them very much. I'm not much smarter than before on this, but this seems to lie in the nature of this subject. I'll certainly will inquire the hell out of the vendor we finally by it from :-)
I've always found the descriptions at the top of the Linux SATA RAID faq helpfull.
http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html
-Shawn