J_RaD - 12:33 am on Sep 6, 2011 (gmt 0)

yea the early sandy bridge boards where also dropping 3G sata controllers. Not all manf were effected though.

i'd say for what you are doing that should fit your needs well. You don't seem to be doing anything very very intensive so this new setup would be great, it would even be great for fairly intensive work as well, so you can grow with it too.