Hi. I'm going to replace a server (keeps crashing due to some unknown reason since about a month, ran for 1year rocksolid before - I was able to limit the source to be one of mainboard, processor or RAM), and because I definately want hardware RAID and already have 8 HDs in the old server (a total of approx. 0.9TB usable), I will need an additional controller anyway, even without doing hardware RAID. Anyway: Can anyone give me recommendations for a nice board which features: 1) 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports 2) at least one PCI-X slot (if no GB-Ethernet available: 2 PCI-X slots) 3) support for a AMD64/EM64T processor Alternatively, I would be interested in recommendations for a nice SATA controller with at least 8 channels. I currently tend to a 3ware 9005-8 or -12 because I had a very good experience with my current 3ware 7508. However, if someone can recommend a good (and obviously: Linux supported) SATA controller for PCIe, I would be interested in a recommendation for a matching mainboard. Price is of course important, but stability and Linux support are far more important. I.e. given the choice between a 250$ combination of mainboard and SATA controller which runs only _mostly_ stable, and a 1000$ combination which runs _completely_ stable, I would choose the latter. cu, sven
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