[Centos] most stable sata raid cards for centos

What about the HighPoint RocketRAID 1820 are these kernel supported on
centos 3.3.
With 8 sata ports and just an extra £30 more than the 8006-2LP is it worth
it?
With the highpoint if I was to add 250gb drives that would mean a massive
3.2tb of storage, compared to 500gb on the 3ware.
3ware only being able to do raid 0,1 due to only 2 sata ports, the highpoint
can do everything including duplicate harddrives to create a mirror.

Any other suggestions?


Kind Regards,
Imran
 
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