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I have been thinking about doing a RAID 5 setup with 4 1TB drives.
My motherboard has enough intel SATA ports to run one through its chipset, but I've heard that can be problematic and wont perform as well.
What would be the best budget option for a small RAID? Are there any affordable RAID cards out there that would fit my needs? I could probably part with $300 for a card. I'll get 4 WD RE4 drives for the raid.
I will have a backup of this data so that's not a problem.

Hi Paul,
Areca ARC-1320-8i seems like the best option - or a variation of it (like ARC-1320-4i4x) - as long as you get four internal ports. It's right around $300.
That said, some of my clients run Intel RST RAID5 on four drives for some time, and it actually performs well:
(Personally I think software and hybrid RAIDs are the future of RAID technology: much more flexible than hardware RAID; potentially faster as well given that they have access to all of computer resources rather than just a dedicated processor. The latest iteration of RST, for example, allow SSDs for caching of RAID volumes.)
For my personal system, I use a $200 CineRAID H458 box with four Hitachi Deskstars in RAID5, which is a very inexpensive option for an external RAID:
Sure, it's rather slow; fast enough for my purposes though, and is highly portable, unlike any config with an internal RAID controller.
If I need something seriously faster (yet on a budget), I'd use something like this:

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