i use one motherboard Intel DP35DP and it's running sweet, have 6 sata
ports, gigabit ethernet and support 8 gigas or ram.



On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Robert Heibel <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Some one emailed me recommending there ASUS P5BV/SAS which has a 8 port lsi
> sas controller built in and 2 pci-x slots. for the price ~£280 its good
> value with the lsi built in.
>
> The intel little falls 2 looks great but would only give me 2 new sata
> ports (2 onbord + 4 on a add-in card.) i would recommend such a setup, as i
> would the 1.8GHz VIA Epia SN, to anyone needing no more than a 4 disk raidz
> 2 disk mirrored rpool.
>
> I need 6 sata ports now and some way to expand in the future either pci-x
> or pci-e.
>
> Im going to investigate the P5BV/SAS as a possibility(not everything works
> e.g 4 intel sata ports) but would still like any suggestions you may have.
>
> Another emailed suggestion was to use Vmware under Linux to get round
> driver issues.
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