Let's see...
I can pickup an AN-29160 (64bit) for $189 (without shopping around), and a Fujitsu (yuck!) 160 HDD, with 18 GB for $120. Total: $309 (+ cable, 3.00).
On the other hand, I could pickup 2 SATA drives, and run them off of the A7N8X in raid 0. Cost: about the price of two 20 GB ATA drives($70). Total $140.
The problem is that the SATA configuration would be raid 0 or raid 1 only, not both. Since raid 0 can be fragile, I'd have to choose raid 1, for reliability.
Unless I get a controller that would allow me to do raid 0/1 over 4 drives, then I'm looking at 75 for the controller, and 4*70 for the drives. Total 350 (with 40GB though, in SCSI, that would total 430), and I'm back to ATA, because there's no SATA controller that'll run raid 0/1 out there, yet (right?).
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