On Thursday, April 07, 2011 01:23:45 PM Kevin Thorpe wrote: > The only PCI-X card I have is an old ICP Vortex RAID controller and > the Dell hangs with that installed (BIOS is disabled). Dell typically shipped Adaptec cards; I seem to remember 39160's being shipped in some 1850's I have. That would be more than enough performance for what you want, and they aren't expensive on eBay.