Sorry I haven't been posting anything, not that it's terribly unusual.  Anyway I've been doing battle with a personal file server project.  Basically I just kept having odd little side problems and instabilities with two different motherboards...it turns out both motherboards had issues.  Thankfully they were both pulls, so it's no big loss.  Anyway it seems to be working just fine now and I've transfered about 500gig back and forth to the thing without any issues.

A secondary issue was transfer speed.  The whole reason for me trying different setups was to get more than (usually) 130 megabits over my gigabit network.  With the new setup its finally going a good, solid 220-280 megabits (27-35 Mbytes/sec).  It's not the fastest in the world but it's fast enough for anything I need it to do (you could burn DVD/CD images off of it at full speed).

Also, it is using a small, software, RAID 5 array (just a set of three, 250gig drives).