The OS will detect and manage the drive (s) as it would any other drive and you'd be able to store data within a configured pool. The reason why many, including myself, often recommend drives designed ...

I've got a Lacie "Biggest F800" external RAID drive - USB 2.0, Firewire 800 connections on the back. Has 4 hot-swappable bays, currently with 4x 250GB HDs in them (can take up to 4x 500GB).

Hope I'll get some answers to this quickly:I'm right now fixing a Dell Poweredge 4200 Tower server. One of the RAID hard drives died. Now, forseeing this problem years ago, we ordered replacement ...