Craig, you'll need a better geek than me. Fortunately, there are lots of them around.

I like the price of that unit, and the fact that it comes with a card and a cable. I DON'T like the fact that it is a software RAID solution. It just doesn't seem like there is any getting around the notion that - for true hardware RAID - you need to have the disks reside in the same box as a RAID-capable controller card. Which implies a separate system, rather than just a storage appliance.

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