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If you had the same as 1500/LL case you would have 120mm fans, not 80mm. At least my LL has 120mm fans.

I have a setup like the 1500/LL. With only 2 AMS 5-in-3 backplanes. The backplanes are a little loud,even at thier low speed setting. I installed nexus's fans which are a much quieter, but the fan connections don't match. You will ether have to do some soldering or, as I did, I ran the connections to the other connections in the case. You will get a red light on the 5-in-3 which means your fans aren't working, but they are, they just aren't attached to the AMS.

I have more drives coming this weekend. I am going to put the parity and some others on the MB and some on the controller card. just to see what happens. As long as parity is fast is the main thing, right??

It sounds like the controller on the motherboard is faster than the Promise SATA300. (assuming you had the same drives connected to both) If you added additional drives, then it will be slower, regardless of which controller they are connected to. If the two controllers do not have to share the same bus, it will be faster than if they share the same bus on the motherboard. What speeds are you seeing? Joe L. Thanks for the reply.. I'm doing a parity check right now and I am getting (55,534 KB/sec). When I port out of the Promise SATA300 card it will drop to around (24,000 KB/sec). Bill

First let me say, I have unRaid up and running, and I love it. But I do have a question. I have 4 sata II ports on board. When I was setting it up and running the parity check, it runs very fast. But I know I will need more ports so I bought the PROMISE SATA300 TX4 PCI SATA II Controller Card, switched my 4 500 gig drives over to it (wanted to try it out), But then my speed on parity was cut in half. So my question are: 1. Is it just my parity drive its effecting or is it going to cut all my transfer speeds in half? 2. Will it maintain its fast speed if I keep the parity drive ported to the motherboard. I guess what I am saying is, are the drives ported to the motherboard going to faster then the drives ported to the controller card, and will it be noticeable on reads and writes?? Sorry, I hope this makes sense, I had a hell of a time trying to word this right.

Just reading some of the reviews at newegg. With me not knowing that much about Sata II cards, I just wanted some assurance..

Just set up a new unRaid and this board works great: Foxconn 6150BK8MC-KRSHN2 Socket 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6150B(PV) GPU Micro ATX AMD Motherboard with 4 Sata II on board Newegg has them for $39.99 after $20.00 mail in rebate. The flash shows up as a USB-HDD. Just choose it as your 1st boot devise. And you are off and running. Fast with Sata II. Now I have a question. I want to get a pci Sata II with 4 outputs, but I am reading that some will NOT work if you have on board Sata II. Is this so?? Can some one point me in the right direction.. What should I get?? Bill