Half uber raid setup (Score 2, Interesting)

I've got half the uber setup they talked about and its works great for me. With 6 sata ports on my mobo and another 2 in a pci-x by 1 slot (I found a regular pci card for $10 with two ports). I've got plenty of space with only an additional $30 on the card. I use mdadm in a raid 5 with 6 x 1TB drives with one spare. One 300GB drive for the OS and I had the rest of the parts laying around. You could assemble the setup I've got for $500 if you have any old system with a large enough case. Add a backplane for another $90 if you you case is only a midsize. I have never benchmarked the speeds but It seems fast. The price was certainly right.