In that case, let us know how it performs once you have it up and running.

Well I had to pass on SATA for this round of upgrades. I didn't want to spend the money on the Seagate 80Gig drives given the reviews I found for them and I couldn't find an SATA RAID controller anyway. I ended up with a couple of the nice WD 120G Special Edition drives and a Promise ATA 133 RAID card. 240Gigs of storage and a good enough controller for about $300 was a pretty easy sell, even if I junk it all in a year and go to SATA.

Setting up the RAID under the promise BIOS was such a piece of cake after dealing with vinum on this machine for the last couple of years. It took about an hour to install the drives and card and get FreeBSD reinstalled and semi-configured. Now I have to sort through my old partitions that didn't get nuked and figure out what I still care about and then I can get rid of all the oddball, hand-me-down drives that where in this machine.

-Mike