[Pc_Support] 3Ware 9500s-4LP SATA 1 dead port

[Jason Boxman]

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

http://tinyurl.com/dtvca

"ONE of the ports of the 4 ports is non-operational. The card has THREE 
working ports. The bad port does not slow down the card, you basically have a 
3 port card instead of the 4."

I don't even have any SATA drives, but more and more drives available on the 
cheap after rebates are SATA and I have no SATA 3Ware cards.  What's more, I 
doubt I'll ever be running four drive RAID 1+0, but probably three drive RAID 
5 on it with larger SATA drives.

Seems hard to close for cheap.  But it still has 14 hours left, so it might go 
for >$100 even with a dead port.  Either way, I think I'll bid low.

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Jason Boxman
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