Recommend a harware raid controller

[Dihi Doctor]

Hi all,

I am fed up with using my motherboard's software raid. It causes hassle each time I rebuild my PC (most Linux distros do not support it out of the box).

Hence I would like a recommendation for a hardware raid controller. Ideally to support 4 SATA-II disks and under £50.

I do not know if this is possible - there seems to be some massive variation in price! Are the cheaper ones software raid?

Thanks in advance
Jon

 

[Dihi Doctor]

Thanks for the replies. I currently use dmraid, since it allows me to use software raid under both Linux and Windows.

Looks like a hardware raid card that will make the raid transparent to Windows and Linux is out of my budget.

Guess I'll be sticking with dmraid for now then