Never done a RAID, need advice!

Allright I have some questions that some can maybe help me with.

1. Who makes the best RAID cards?

2. Anything special I should know when setting this up?

3. Should I try to get a motherboard with raid capabilities?

4. Are there motherboards that handle raid cards better then others?

5. Can someone explain the differences between RAID 0,1,5,10?

6. What I want to do is basically make Linux recognize 2 250 GB eide drives as one 500 GB hd I believe this is a RAID 0, am I right?

7. If you had to pick a RAID card from http://www.newegg.com/app/manufactor...log=410&DEPA=1 that does SATA or ATA 133 which would you pick?

 

 

 

 

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