<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">You also might just want to look at replacing your motherboard with a motherboard and cpu combo from Microcenter - they can be pretty aggressive price wise and so many of the new motherboards these days are shipping with 4-6 sata ports right on the motherboard. No need for an add on card. I have a Gigabyte board with 6 sata ports that I'm running a software raid-10 with 6 1tb drives, and it is extremely fast.<br>
<br></blockquote><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, that's a good suggestion. The current box is an old celeron, with 1GB of RAM, maybe it's time I retire it.</div></div>