Carl, I have a friend using an Areca card in his BSD box that he is using for a NAS. True hardware controller. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151031 is the "baby" version of what he is using. --Adam On 2014-02-27 12:45, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > I find myself clueless about the state of hardware again. > > It used to be that I recommended 3ware RAID controllers because: > > 1. they had good Linux drivers built into the kernel > 2. they were reliable > 3. they had a really good management tool suite under Linux > > However, it looks like 3ware has abandoned the low-end RAID market and > the > cheapest controller of theirs which I find on Newegg is ~$440. Gone > are the > days of $120 2-port controllers for desktop use. > > Does anyone have a recommendation for a hardware RAID controller to > mirror > drives for a desktop Linux box? > > I really don't want to go back to the days of software RAID.