Affordable hardware SATA raid 5 card

[Bigsy]

I have a decent'ish pc that I no longer use, so wanted to make a NAS box out of it as I have tons of data I always need sharing.

I think raid 5 would be a sensible solution as I have 2x spare SATA disks and was going to buy another 2 anyway.

So what's the best cheapest hardware card? Seen a Adaptec 2610SA for around £100 which seems quite good.

Oh and it really does need to be hardware as this is going to be a linux box and I ain't messing with fakeraid drivers. Also PCI as the mobo doesn't have Express..

 

[Bigsy]

Plenty to look through Here

Are any of them real hardware raid? Most certainly don't look like it to me.

Thanks rpstewart the adaptec card I was looking at is pci-x which works in pci.

Think I'll give software raid 5 a bash first, seems a bit complicated but maybe worth a go as speed isn;t a huge factor at present, more the redundancy.