It's pretty easy, having lots of experience with HW-Raid and SW-Raid, software it the way to go because: 1. Do you trust Firmware...i don't, i can tell you sto

It's pretty easy, having lots of experience with HW-Raid and SW-Raid, software it the way to go because: 1. Do you trust Firmware...i don't, i can tell you storys about freaking out san's...never had that with solaris or freebsd and zfs. 2. Why having a additional abstraction layer, HW Raid caching vs FS-Caching, no transparency for error correction, not smart raid rebuild etc. the list can go on and on, but HW-Raid is a thing of the past (exceptions are specialized san's etc)