Looking for a Branded server with HW Raid support in Debian

[Rishi <rishi.forums@gmail.com>]

Hi

I plan on using Debian Server in my office but to prevent downtime, I  
wanted to use a Branded server like IBM, Dell or HP with RAID-1  
mirroring hotswap drives.

Has anyone had experience with them and could make a recommendation  
on which model to buy?

I had bought an IBM server last year with a Hardware RAID controller  
and implemented RAID-5. Although Debian installed fine, the RAID  
tools were made by IBM only for RedHat, Suse, Turbo Linux and  
Windows. I tried converting the rpm to deb, but wasn't able to get it  
to work. :-(

Regards

Rishi