Whoa. You were lucky. Very lucky. If you are going to use hardware raid, please do make sure you have a spare raid controller, same firmware, same model. If no

Whoa. You were lucky. Very lucky. If you are going to use hardware raid, please do make sure you have a spare raid controller, same firmware, same model. If not, you will be SOL when your controller dies. RAID5 these days (with our very large disks) is basically asking for trouble - the odds of a second disk failing during the reconstruction are very high. But I guess you already know that!