Decent RAID Controller

[Knubje]

Hi all,

A friend is planning on building a beastly system for storage. However, he doesn't really want to use onboard RAID due to the fact that if the mobo dies, so does his RAID.

He is going to have RAID5 configuration with 6*1TB Sata Drives.

Anyone got a general consensus on what is a good card that doesn't cause too many performance issues? Price ranges are negotiable

Thanks!


Edit: Damn sorry mods, but I posted in Optical Storage & Writing rather than Harddrives, can you move it please

 

[Knubje]

Thanks stu, that's useful info!

He is going to be using Vista 64bit and he's going nuts with the amount of high spec hardware he is using for a single home computer
Still it's his hobby and he loves it

I've passed on your words of wisdom! Cheers fella!