Vinny, please read my post more closely. As I stated clearly, yes a hardware controller can run a RAID on nearly anything at least from 2000 up.
Easy there, Bert.. sorry if I missed this in your post.
That being said, WHY would I want Windows XP handling this in software? I wouldn't ASK XP, home, pro or otherwise, to handle managing my storage, I'd offload this onto a fast hardware controller, which looks like a single REALLY BIG ATA drive to Windows.
Within the context of the original post, though, none of this really matters. Get a single high-quality drive for the front desk computer.
Regards,
V.
