Yeah man... stay with us here... we're related lol (reminds me of two tribes after a split and they re-join after years apart, and one is way more advanced than the other... anyways)...
lol
Hyper... I built a server up a while back with a 12 SATA port raid card and a bunch of 250Gb drives. I see they now do SATA2 (mine was a 3Ware) so there's potential to go with a dozen 320's, or whatever size you like. Whicever way you go... it sounds like a great project.
I remember loading up an older nforce board with like 4 drives, then added
a scsi card with 3 10k drives, did like a 7 drive raid (software raid).
crazy
Back to the iRams... I know nothing about 'daughter' boards, but wonder (as it's only a power thing I think) whethera couple of those might work?
Nostro... I think it's time for a picture or two mate.