hardware raid solutions?

I need a relatively low-cost hardware raid solution (not pseudo hardware) so I can implement raid five on the root and boot partitions. For a variety of reasons, I would take quite a bit of convincing to use software raid for this application.

Serial ATA or parallel ATA solutions are fine. The only caveat being that parallel ATA solutions use only 1 Disk Drive per cable. it would also be nice if there was some form of monitoring software that could send me a notice saying that a disk drive has failed.

I've done a bunch of searching and there is no hardware vendor that stands out in a good way. So, I would appreciate opinions from folks on what has worked well for them and what has failed.

many thanks
--- eric


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