File server questions..

[r0undb0y]

Ok, I'm in the process of building a file server for my home network, Mainly for storage capacity and some redundancy.

I have and old celeron 566Mhz and motherboard which I'm hoping to use. Its low power I know but I'm hoping it will work.

I have been looking at this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CC-022-AD and it appears to have a larger connector for PCI, does this need a special mobo or will it work in a normal PCI slot?

Also the mobo obviously won't support large harddrives will this matter as long as the PCI card does?

There seems to be a few really cheap sata controller cards from other sites but I'm not sure whether to trust all my data on them. If anyone has any recommendations I'd like to hear. I realise I might just have to get my wallet out and buy a newer motherboard and cpu.

TIA

 

[rpstewart]

That card will operate in a normal 32bit / 33MHz PCI slot albeit within the bandwidth limitations of the PCI bus (133MB/s shared across all devices). I think you should be all right with large disks since the card will deal with the 48bit LBA requests rather than the board.