> Check out areca. The driver is in tree (writen by areca). And it looks > like they are actively supporting linux. They have drivers for RHEL 4 update 3 among many others for their PCIe RAID cards that I looked at. > > There was some nice performance comparison betwean linux compatible > sata raid cards and areca performed really well. If my memory serves > me well it was significantly faster then 3ware. > Can't find the url now :(. So i have no arguments to support it now. > But certainly areca it's worth a try. > Maybe I will check them out. I've been looking for some PCIe solution for some time and they have great Linux support from the looks of it.