Recommend me a RAID card

[kkeirnan]

Right now I have an ASRock x58 motherboard handling onboard RAID5. Lately its been acting flakey. Twice now it has marked a drive as failed. Interestingly though when it marks the drive as failed it marks whole array as failed and inaccessible. I KNOW! Whats the point of RAID5 if I lose one drive and the whole array is lost.

Normally though after some reboots and disconnecting/reconnecting the drives it will mark it as back online however the array needs to be rebuilt each time. This is a two day process!!!

So recommend me a RAID card. I honestly dont care too much about performance. Speed isnt a huge issue as the array is used for storage. Even if its software RAID card I wouldnt care, as long as it dependable and has 4 SATA II ports.

What you got for me?

 

[kkeirnan]

not one?

 

[Old Hippie]

It could be that your drives are the problem.

 

[cbutters]

I recommend: HighPoint RocketRAID 2680 8 port card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115057&Tpk=HighPoint RocketRAID 2680.

or a Perc 5i or 6i available on ebay for 70-100 bucks.

All these options have 8 ports, but might as well keep it expandable and the prices aren't bad.