RAID card suggestions

[EnderW]

What's a good RAID card for RAID 5/6 with 8 x WD Cavier Green drives? PCI-E interface?
Current card is a HighPoint 2320, want something faster than that. Needs to work with Windows 7

 

[Blue Fox]

Areca as always.

 

[sonofander]

Love my 1230s

 

[nitrobass24]

Megaraid SAS 9260-8i 8 PORT 6Gb/s SATA+SAS RAID

Here it is outperforming an Areca 1680
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1440189

 

[DieTa]

Heads up for the Areca 1220 PCIe x8 I own. Have moved my RAIDset (6x 1TB) accross 3 different systems and bases now and it works just awesome (on Debian, Windows and I'm sure also any other Unix-like OS). If you "just" need 8 ports - it's a great card to enter the hardware RAID sphere

 

[EnderW]

I've always heard Areca cards are picky about what drives they work with
if I remember correctly, there were a lot of issues with WD drives

 

[sonofander]

I've not had any drive issues with mine. Been running 2tb WDs since they came out with no issues. I've migrated, expanded and modified my arrays several times, changed mobos and OS's all without hiccups

 

[DieTa]

Also I'm running 6x WD Green 1TB drives. No problems