Raid 1/10 for LGA775 consumer board

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jbraband

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Good afternoon everyone, I have a newegg wishlist stocked with an E3, x9scm, norco case, etc (i.e. the works), but its tallying up to $1900. a bit above what i'm comfortable with.

I recently upgrade my main workstation to the sandy bridge platform, which leaves my now unused 775 parts on the shelf.

I have a home-built WHSv1 with about 2TB of data on it. With WHS2011 RTMed it is time for me to finally commit to an upgrade to that Athlon X2 WHS hardware. Apart from the awesomeness that the E3 build would bring, I feel that I must investigate the lower end of the spectrum price-wise and look at the LGA775 parts as my new WHS2011 build.

Parts include:
GIGABYTE GA-X48-DS4: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128336
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115036

I would throw a CT intel NIC in there but I'm stuck on the HBA.

My Xeon build has 6 Hitachi 5k3000 on an IBM M1015 with 3 Raid1 arrays (maybe one 2TB Raid1 and one 4TB Raid10 for media). I am hoping that the M1015 will work for this X48 motherboard. That would allow me to invest in the disks/controller now and invest in the CPU/mobo later, perhaps when LGA2011 gets here.

Is it worth spending the $80-ish on a used M1015 to try on that mobo? or is it obvious to someone that it will not work at all?

The nerd side of me is saying to add the xeon wishlist to cart, click the buttons, and walk away. The budget is telling me that I at least have to see what using downcycled parts would cost.

I appreciate any advice you guys/gals can offer!
-jeremy