> It's a real raid adapter and the linux kernel is able to handle it > with the standard ips module > I found some references in Google that seemed to indicate a "fakeraid" controller, one that depends on the driver to do the RAID calculations... > > It's always up to you to decide but i'd prefer using the hw raid > controller in that case of course ... > My fear is that in case of controller failure it will be difficult to find in time a controller that recognizes the particular format of the array, or that it will be too expensive. As an example, I recently tried to buy the second processor for the machine (it originally came with only one) and wanted more than 1500 dollars (yes!) for the P4 Xeon 3GHz CPU. I am thankful for you for answers!