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Paul wrote:

> While SAS exists and could in principle be put in your
> home computer, I've yet to read an account where someone
> claims they got a good result by doing this.

The previous motherboard in my "server" had a single PCI-X slot (pre 
PCIe but wider and faster than PCI).  I bought a cheapish 6 port SAS 
controller and used it with linux software RAID.

I won't even try to find whatever performance tests I did years ago, but 
I remember it favourably, and couldn't find a newer motherboard with PCI-X