Raid or internal sata card for my mac?

Hi People,
I have some problems with my internal sata ports and therefore I'm thinking about buying either a raid card (I want to run my two internal harddrives in raid0 so doing it hardware would not be a bad idea) or just a simple internal sata card. But I can't seam to find any products like that except for the raid card apple wants like 1400$ for which is way overkill for this little hack. This can be done for something like 80$ on PC, isen't it possible to get something for my powermac g5 quad that will work?
Thank you in advance.

Hi-
Replied to your other post. Check out the Firmtek line (PCI Express) at OWC (will ship worldwide):
http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search.cfm?Criteria=SATA%20High%2DSpeed%20Contr oller%20Mac%20Cards&sort=a
For RAID, this Highpoint would set you up right:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Highpoint%20Technologies/RRAID2310/

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