thanks for the replies, gentlemen. yes, the 'outlier' issue is really the crux
of it. while this isn't bad motherboard, neither is it enterprise-grade. i'm
reasonably happy with the performance, so i really should just buy a spare of
the mobo, and for the most part that covers me. sure - it's po
background: my vocation and avocation since 1994 has been unix systems
administrator. i've been running solaris on SPARC hardware all this time. my
home server, which does email, webhosting, etc for a bunch of friends and
family, has until recently been a Netra T1 105 with D130 array. it sucked
