new server motherboard with SATA II

[Danny Carroll]

Hello all,

I'm looking to set up a file server at our office.  It's a small office 
so price is a concern.  Performance is also going to be important.

The data will be replicated from another site so integrity of the data 
is not paramount.  For this reason I think I'll be able to run with ZFS. 
  I see it as a good opportunity to contribute to getting ZFS stable and 
non-experimental.

What I am really concerned about is the SATA support.

If I look at AMD64 as an arch, does anyone have any experience with good 
IO chipsets that can do full SATA-300?

I don't mind if it is a on-board or if I get a good controller card so 
long as I can get decent performance out of the Seagate Barracuda 
7200.11 drives.

I'd be willing to go with intel arch although from a ZFS perspective it 
sounds like AMD64 is better.

-D