I've used the mirroring in windows 2003 many times without issues.
For third party raid, historically I've gone with 3ware.  But I
haven't bought a card in years.  I would also look at Areca:
http://www.areca.com.tw/

Unless I really need performance, I'll always use linux md raid first.

As for booting off software raid...

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Anton Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So, your solution is manual intervention?  At home, fine.  Not usually
>> the case at $work.
>
>
> No manual intervention required. The BIOS should be set to boot from ALL
> drives of the mirror, it tries booting from each drive, if one has fails it
> moves on to the next. The only edge case this fails is if a drive has a
> valid bootloader in the MBR but has a missing/corrupt OS.

You can also set grub to failover its boot order - so if one disk is
working enough for grub, but grub fails to find the kernel, grub can
look for the kernel on disk 2 automatically.

-- 
Steven Kurylo
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