What raid card should I get

[rmargetts]

this is my first server Im getting up and running, on a home project for myself. I just picked up four Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s and the server only has a PCI card in it. what raid controller would you recommend I use to get the best transfer rate out of drives I can with what I have. 

Attached I have a copy of my exansion card, to verify that it actually is PCI and not any other card.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Ryan M.

[DSTAVERT]

Welcome to the comunities.

I think what you have is a PCI-X slot. I don't know that there are new PCI-X cards being released any more so you won't be able to take advantage of the 6GB speeds. I would check with the documentation just to be sure it is PCI-X or post the server name and model.

The HCL will be the best place to find supported controller models. http://vmware.com/go/hcl

[AndreTheGiant]

Check to some PCI-X card on ebay... for exam some old Dell PERC card are for this bus.

Andre