I'm using an LSI MPT2 PCIe controller myself and it's working great. I paid around $150 on ebay a while ago for it, so the model you show should be just fine. I'd be careful about buying off Ebay unless you know EXACTLY what you're getting. And remember to buy the expander cables to go from the two ports on the card, two two sets of four SATA controller cables. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html