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My problem is that I'm not a Linux god.

I'm really glad I hve given "hardware" RAID a try. I can now really see Mark's point, you do stand more of a chance of getting your data back with software RAID if you know what you are doing.

My problem is I don't know what I am doing, yet

That's the thing about 'community'

The linux-raid list has regular 'help' emails and they almost all get sorted - I think the only caveat is "don't mess if you don't know what you're doing - just ask".

Also, you mentioned wanting to power down the disks in your raid. I'm not sure how well that works 'out of the box' under linux. You may need to do some fiddling.