John Moylan wrote: > Be careful with the Sil chips, some of them will not support certain > HDD's at the HW level. I had a problem with Maxtor DiamondMax10 300GB > SATA150 disks. My Sil controller would not support staggered spin up > and the drives simply wouldn't power on. > > 3Ware are very reliable. You're definitely preaching to the choir about 3Ware. :) Just trying to offer an alternative. I hadn't heard about those types of problems with the SiL-based cards. Cheers,