Best Hardware Raid Controller

[Atomicslave]

Right now i am about to invest some money into a hardware raid controller for home, i am stuck on either the adaptec 6805 or the areca 1880i both are quite similar.

I was going to use either

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136792

or

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145472

for disks and run the array in Raid 6.

Both drives dont seem to be on the supported list for either card but i believe they should work, can anyone comment on either controller being good or bad or is there a better one? Also can anyone recommend a better drive choice while still being the same price range?

 

[bryanmartin]

You nees to get the RAID certified drives from WD. The non-RAID-cert drives tend to drop their RAID set


This one is similar to what you're looking at, only for RAID

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136579


Here's the full line-up:

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/enterprise/