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Oh, one tip if you go software side. Don't RAID the hard disk. Create partitions on the disks and RAID those, making the partition a bit smaller then the hard disk. That way, if one of your Brand X 120gig drives fails, and only a Brand Y 120g can be found later. There is a possibility Brand Y 120 gig will be a smidge smaller then Brand X, and by using a smaller setup of space on the old disk, the new one should still work into the array.



The same thing can apply to disks even of the same model number, I had an expensive mistake where my 18GB IBM drives were a few hundreds of kilo bytes smaller than the existing disks with the same model number, making them useless as replacements in my RAID5 array.
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