Recently purchased a new 750GB SATA drive and a nice Vantec Nexstar 3 enclosure with the eSata interface, allowing up to 3.0Gbps transfer rates. (Only 1.5Gbps on PCI SATA)
Plugged it into a new SI3114 based PCI card. Interestingly the Linux kernel (stock 2.6.18) seemed to handle a power-up of the 750GB drive without [...]
