Never say never. All it takes is one case of the encrypted data being outside a secure setting due to the 'human' factor, and then this mandated backdoor can be used to decrypt it.
Of course, they won't ever mandate a backdoor be added in their encryption system
RAID is great but without monitoring and alerting you can still have a problem. Better still is the automatic creation of incident records and escalation.
mdadm can be scripted using any ordinary system health monitoring system. On some servers I was responsible for, I had automatic monitoring setup configured to send e-mail the instant any drive failure was noticed.
This is one of the nice things with open software. I can't imagine the trouble it would be to do the same for a proprietary raid card.
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Rock solid and plenty of ports. I use it for multiple ZFS file servers, which subsequently led me to utilizing Linux regularly, which then led to dropping Windows altogether. It sounds corny to say but FreeBSD changed my life is a measurable way.
