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Originally Posted by id10t
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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That's bad ju ju, I've had more non-recoverable software raid volumes over the years than I can care to count. It also robs performance from the server since each read/write is calculated through the cpu as the parity bit is written.
But I do agree with the VMware idea, however to do it right for production servers you need ESX and that's some serious denero, probably some american money as well.
BTW, you can recover a hardware array very easily on the right type of controller. Most times you just need to online the disks again, or if you're smart your hot spare took over for the failed disk.