| Unless you are planning on some type of multiuser environment where you are going to be serving data to multiple users/applications at the same time, I'd expect decent SATA2 drives to be more than adequate. Any more, SCSI is really only called for in heavy-duty big-iron server environments or hardcore workstation-type stuff.
That being said, I'd recommend getting a dedicated SATA2 RAID controller, rather than using on-board mobo-based RAID, ESPECIALLY if you are planning on doing a RAID 10 configuration.
3Ware makes some pretty nice SATA RAID controllers, as does LSI. I've not played with Adaptec's offerings, but if their SCSI controllers are anything to go by, I'd not spend the money it'd take to shoot one much less actually own it.
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