> P.S. If you think you're going to get a dual-Opteron mainboard for > under $300, it's near impossible. The only ones that are under $300 > typically lack an AMD8131 -- i.e., _no_ PCI-X channels. You'd be better > off getting a $100 Athlon64 nForce mainboard with an Athlon64x2 4200+ > and a PCIe x4 or PCIe x8 storage controller instead. > > Do you have any information on PCIe storage controllers? I have googled and gone here and there but not found anything. Do you know of any card that supports more than 4 SATA ports without a dumb fakeraid tacked on? Just a pure SATA card with more than 4 ports.