Still working on getting the new server resurrected.  Having difficulties getting the RAID to auto-assemble at boot time and haven’t figured out why.  And while investing $300 on a hardware controller could solve that issue, some pointed out to me a reason to avoid that if possible and that is the hardware controller uses a proprietary protocol and if it fails, unless I can get another controller from the same vendor, the data is lost, where as software RAID can be read by ANY Linux system.  So software RAID is desirable from that standpoint.