Recommend a PCIe SATA RAID5 card?

Hi all
Ive been planning on putting an Areca ARC-1220 into my master2Far for a while now but decided to check this forum just in case.
And its a good job i checked too as others seems to be having problems with these two working together.
What I want to know is whether anyone can recommend a PCIe (either x4 or x8) SATA RAID card that plays well with a master2Far ?
I really need RAID5......

Quote from: Zenith on 18-August-07, 00:12:54
Hi all
Ive been planning on putting an Areca ARC-1220 into my master2Far for a while now but decided to check this forum just in case.
And its a good job i checked too as others seems to be having problems with these two working together.
What I want to know is whether anyone can recommend a PCIe (either x4 or x8) SATA RAID card that plays well with a master2Far ?
I really need RAID5......
should be fine, since its in QVL list:
http://taiwan.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=prodqvl&prod_no=691&maincat_no=133&cat2_no=479&cat3_no=

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