On 04/07/11 10:51 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > 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. the LSIU320 PCI-X card I suggested googled as cheap as $49 and are as cheap as $10 on fleabay... The PCI-E cards are more :-/