...that I have no desire to purchase an iPhone.

Oh.. and it's way overpriced.

> Those things draw a bit of power, but worse they are nosy.

I once had an old IDE drive that got into my bank statements and checkbooks. It then went to the bank and withdrew some cash and headed to Mexico. It then called my mother to inform her about what I had been doing for the past few months. It even made up some stuff. Damn nosy old IDE disks!

Slap a 2nd NIC into the box and hard code the IP address to a private network and slap a loopback connector onto it so it's hot and will come up. Then if the "real" network goes down, you can jack up to the old nic and ssh in.

RAID's job is to protect from ONE and ONLY ONE type of failure, DISK failure, NOT controller failure. Any controller, regardless of type, can fail. That's why you should STILL do regular backups. RAID does not protect from viruses, spyware, operator error, fire, theft, or any other type of failure other than a single disk. It relies on the statistical probability that one and only one disk in an array will fail, and that is all.

Backups are floss. You only have to floss the data you want to keep.

Software development would become more time consuming, expensive, and would drive up prices. Then Microsoft really WOULD be like GM.

If you're rewriting from scratch, make sure they don't have any patents on their product. They can't win a copyright suit unless they can prove you actually copied code. A patent suit is more squishy in that they only have to prove you stole their patented idea.

However, be cautioned, this move will cost you -a lot- as in NO INCOME until you sell product. How's that for encouragement?