Indy, on the software RAID, I was responding to his post about his friend who purchased a T300 and the question of software RAID.
Most definitely the T310 that Tom quoted has a hardware RAID controller. If not, then Dell needs to be reported to the BBB if they are charging $5500 without hardware RAID.
I agree with your NAS, but I have to say I have two RAID5 4TB Buffalo NAS, and I would almost give them away. I don't know why, and I am sure it is my fault, by two months ago I did about 50 test backups, and I feel much better with my eSATA drives being connected directly to my eSATA cards on my server. I had some difficulty with two or three types of backups. Had to always use UNC for full image and file backups, and they didn't work everytime.
So, I still use for backups, but do my complete imaging on my TB SATA drives. Probably just I.
