Good ATA Raid 5 card ~$150

[Korialstrasza]

Hi guys,
I'm looking for a decent ATA card capable of raid 5. I have 4 300gb ATA133 drives here I'd like to build a file server with. Hopefully, I can throw some more HDDs in there in the future.

Got anything that comes to mind?

Thanks!

EDIT: needs to work nicely with Linux too!

 

[longblock454]

HighPoint RocketRaid 1740.

Highpoints linux support is good. Drivers for many distros and an opensource build.

 

[unhappy_mage]

You can buy plain ATA cards and run software raid. ATA raid wasn't all that fast or reliable, so you can benefit from having the power of a modern processor at your disposal. Linux software raid is rather easy to set up, expandable, and fast. Compared to hardware- (or firmware-) based raid, that's two advantages, and three if you don't mind reading the man page for mdadm a dozen times or so.

 

[swatbat]

Unless you are looking for a used card on ebay or something most cards in that range are going to be software based. I agree with rage with the idea of just getting an ide controller and running software raid in linux.