Quote Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss View Post
whats the big hoorah about these Dell PERC controllers?
Lots of people (including me) found them on ebay for 100-200$
They mount the good intel IOP 331, 332 processors which are very fast.

They are server controllers (from 4i above) very reliable, altough very hot.

whats the diff between the '5i' & the '5E' models?
cheers
5i is SAS, my 4i is SCSI. The new 6i is supposed to be SAS too.
dunno, probably some external port.