I have dual ported backplanes that I have tried with the pliant drives. I will direct connect to them, but I was hoping for more of a how to...for some reason I couldn't get the sequential benchmarks to match up the first time I attempted to reach "wide-port" mode. Thanks for the link, I actually read that a couple of months back. Don't suppose anyone has a how to on actually set up wide port, I think I may be misunderstanding what/how to achieve this? I guess its not a simple setting that you "click on" in the firmware or some software.