If money isn't an issue - the dedicated 3ware raid cards are very hard 
to beat!

At home I have had good luck with software raid, using a PCI-X SATA 
controller from Marvell.  = $100

http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/110322224/8_Port_SATA_II_300_Marvell.html

I have two of them in two different fileservers running 7 and 8 500gb 
disks, they have been very solid - owned them for 4-5 years now.

You also might just want to look at replacing your motherboard with a 
motherboard and cpu combo from Microcenter - they can be pretty 
aggressive price wise and so many of the new motherboards these days are 
shipping with 4-6 sata ports right on the motherboard.  No need for an 
add on card.  I have a Gigabyte board with 6 sata ports that I'm running 
a software raid-10 with 6 1tb drives, and it is extremely fast.

Always lots of choices, good luck!


On 05/24/2011 12:26 PM, Noah Markon wrote:
> I currently have an older PCI SATA controller in my mythbox, I believe
> it's some cheap rosewill thing. It's worked well enough for my 3 400GB
> drives, however I want to replace them with 2TB drives, and the
> controller only supports a max of 500GB drives. Any one got any suggests
> for a sata controller on the cheaper side that will support larger drives?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Noah
>
>
>
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