This looks suspiciously like a pseudo-hardware software raid card. Check out this quote from their faq:
Q: How did you manage to achieve such high performance without cache and additional I/O processor?
A: The RAID processing and caching is done on the host motherboard. Performance is so high because of today's high CPU speeds and patented RAIDCore RAID algorithms.
I would have to doubt what benefits this gives you over software raid, as it appears to use your CPU anyway. I think you are far more likely to have maximum reliability and successfully recover your data from a more widely used and open software raid implementation than from this closed system.
I would be interested in knowing which MPM module(s) they used with Apache in their testing. Whether they used worker, prefork, or something else could make a big difference in serving performance. It would also test different areas of kernel performance I would think.
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I would have to doubt what benefits this gives you over software raid, as it appears to use your CPU anyway. I think you are far more likely to have maximum reliability and successfully recover your data from a more widely used and open software raid implementation than from this closed system.
Have you tried CyberDuck? It supports sftp and ftp, auto-detects servers with Rendevous, and lets you drag and drop files from the finder.
I would be interested in knowing which MPM module(s) they used with Apache in their testing. Whether they used worker, prefork, or something else could make a big difference in serving performance. It would also test different areas of kernel performance I would think.