Neo2; SATA thoughts/questions

Hello you all,
Ive been thinking about upgrading my fileserver (see signature) to an Athlon64 3500+ running on a MSI K8N Neo2 (got one on with this machine, love the board). As im going to have a total of five SATA HD's, Im going to need a PCI SATA controller card to satisfy my needs. Now to my thoughts/questions;
The total amount of drives will be 2 IDE HDs, 5 SATA HD's, 1 DVD and 1 CD-RW. Anything that I should think about other than a good PSU? (I can use two PSU's if needed, im moving from the ThermalTake Xaser III to a Coolermaster Stacker) So my question is, if there is any known problems with PCI SATA cards, if so any certain cards? Any recommendations / warnings? Any thoughts, ideas, comments welcome.

try looking into your bios settings that all the SATA are enabled and that the DMA is enabled as well this could help your windows to boot. and if you are running a fileserver why not install windows 2003 server or a 2000 server. you'll have more options and a better controlle over a software raid controller between more devices. (a hardware raid dontroller is better and is more stable.) if i was you i would use an raid 5 controller (but i would use an hardware controller) beware it is possible that you have to install the raidcontroller in one of the first stages in the windows install. by pressing F6 (it apears in the lower left corner when you are starting the setup.)
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