Slightly OT, but this looks like a good place to find a lot of disk controller experience. Since I need to swap out some dodgy hardware anyway, I am thinking about upgrading to one of the 4 port 3ware IDE RAID cards. It will only be in a 2 disk mirror config, however, I am hoping that it will give a nice speed boost Any thoughts on compatibility with dual cpu machines? Any one have any anecdotes on stability or compatability? Are there any pros or cons of going up or down the range, ie older 32 bit PCI is much less money, driver compatability, etc Also, any special config of this card needed for best performance under ext3? (probably not?) Thanks, Ed W