Another "I need a RAID Card"

[lone wolf]

I hate asking but I can't find what I'm looking for. I just rebuilt my server, it has a total of 8 500gb drives, and currently I have two of these handling the duty of RAID. While they seem to do the job, they are only 1.5gb thruput. I'm looking for something a little better, I have seen a supermicro card for 100 bux on newegg, but that is software RAID. What is a good card that won't break the bank?

I currently have both running RAID 5 and everything seems to be doing well, but I have about 300 movies stored and want to make sure that I don't lose them, I lost the hard copies to a fire, so these are irreplacable right now.

 

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Dell Perc 5/i on eBay.

8-port true hardware PCIe RAID card with two SAS cords and BBU included for around $150-175. Can't beat that deal.

 

[lone wolf]

that looks like a great card.
I forgot to mention that my motherboard only has 2 pci-x and 2 pci slots available. sorry.

if I have to upgrade to get better performance that is what I will do.
but for now I want to keep the cost down as much as possible.

thanks again all.