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Put Linux on it, use software raid, then run your Windows server in VMWare. Software raid allows you to re-create your array on *any* machine (only raid failure I've seen has been where the hw raid controller dies... which means while the data is on all the disks, ain't no way to read it!) Bonus of this is that you can move the virtual machine to new hardware/host when more/bigger/better becomes available, copy the whole VM to an external disk every so often for off site backup, etc.
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