nVidia or software RAID 5?

Hi,

I'm building a new server with Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard, with comes
with the nVidia MediaShield Raid support. I'm wondering whether I should
use this function and setup my array in the BIOS, or I should use the Linux
software RAID and build the array directly from the drives. Please advice.

My setup: 1 300GB SATA drive as the system drive. 4 500GB SATA drives to
build a RAID 5. I also plan to further partition the RAID 5 array, probably
on top of LVM, to use as /home and some of /var.

Thanks,

DS --
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