>On the particular Supermicro motherboard I'm using, there is a very >long delay (10 or 15 sec) between power-on and initiation of visible >BIOS activity, so all disk drives have ample time to spin up and stabilize. Yeah, I have used Supermicro in the past and they had the same long pause when you turn them on. Good boards, except I had one die recently. I was wondering how many drives total, and how many watts the PSU is? Also, is the controller's firmware up to date?