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How about your working environment? Home or enterprise level? Maybe the following information would be useful to you:

Enterprise level: I sugguest you to choose 3ware 9590 serie SATA RAID controller. It has the best balance between cost and performance. If your data is extremly important, LSI MegaRAID SATA300-8X do the job well,but this LSI product has very high price. By the way, Promise SuperTalk EX8350 is also used in high end resolutions.

Home level: Just visit Promise and Tekram's website, there are so many cheap cards listed, and be looked as Entry or lowe-end usage.

Be careful, 3ware,Promise,and Tekram's products do not fully support every mainstream Linux distribution, except of LSI. Before you purchase the card, you'd better read the validation OS list or look for source code.

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Hi,Rian,

I think the following cards may be suitable for you,

MegaRAID SATA 150-4,
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http://www.lsi.com/products/megaraid/sata_150_4.html

Four-port serial ATA RAID adapter
- Half-size PCI form factor
64-bit/66 MHz PCI bus
Integrated I/O processor
Serial ATA 150 drive mode support
RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, and 10 supported
64 MB of integrated ECC SDRAM memory
Supports up to 40 logical drives and 4 physical drives per adapter
Auto resume during array reconstruction
Background initialization for Quick RAID 5 setup

Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 2410SA
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http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/product...id/AAR-2410SA/

4 serial ports, 64/66 MHz, low-profile card with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD for high-end workstations and entry-level servers

These two devices could support all major OSs.


Good luck,
Phillip

Not a lot people know that the kernel developers have already include support for 3ware 9500 series. I suggest 3ware instead of Promise controllers. Promise controller are alright for Windows, but they are unreliable in Linux. If you use kernel version equal to or greater than 2.6.14, you can select any 3ware card.

I do not why you went with Highpoint RocketRAID 2220 and I do not know why you insist of using the manufactures software when the kernel developers have already include support for it. I suggest Highpoint RocketRAID 1640. Just use the hpt366 module that is included in the kernel.

It seemed 3ware 9500 series had been stopping production, most of 3ware cards in market are 9550 series.

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