3ware rules, but Promise is cheap. (Score 1)

If u can afford it and need more then 2 drives, definately go with a 3ware card. They are simply amazing. Also they support RAID-5 wich is definately better then anything else, and have an excellent linux support, built-in the kernel. Also they offer cards wich supports up to 12 drives, wich can give you ALOT of storage. I am also currently using a Promise card integrated in the motherboard (a Gigabyte GA7VXP), under slackware 9.0 (kernel 2.4.20). Enabling it in the kernel was easy, but it's not supported by the raid.i kernel. I hooked 2 drives to it and so far so good. I hope that helps