I just build a system with Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 and 6 SATA2 drives. One system Seagate ES 250Gb disk, 5 Seagate ES 500Gb disks. 2.2Tb with raidz. Seems to work well with Nexenta. I could have put 5 ES 750Gb drives instead and had another TB. All in a midi-tower with an Athlon 3800+. This motherboard could probably handle another couple drives as well, although I'd probably get a full tower for that to deal with the heat.
My laptop is actually loud that this system as well. I'd avoid IDE as even rounded cables are very fat. Nicholas
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