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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.

In FreeNAS it was one feature that worked really well, it must cache part/all of the file table (or whatever?) as you could pretty much browse the NAS and the drives spun up when a file was requested, but I never did get to the point of mave many files on it.

The only slight problem was that the WD drive sins up much slower than the seagate driver, that wa causing some retry errors in the log files, but from my point of view it worked pretty well.

I think the Software RAID argument is winning the battle at the moment, like you said if I get stuck all I need to do is ask

Cheers

Cris.