Best Raid Card Brand

[Jack Nasty]

I'm looking for the very best raid card possible for a 24 drive array. I've looked at Adaptec, Areca, 3ware, and LSI. Anyone have opinions on which is best? Is there an even better option? I'm looking for quality, reliability, speed. Price is not an issue.

 

[popatim]

IBM uses LSI and to me what I pay extra for is support and IBM simply has the best.

 

[Jack Nasty]

I've sort of narrowed down my search to Areca and Adaptec. LSI doesn't have an up to date 24 internal port raid card. Anyone have thoughts on which of these two brands is more reliable? Have I missed any options? Again, i'm looking for the absolute best raid card with 24 internal ports.

 

[GhislainG]

What's wrong with the MegaRAID SAS 9280-24i4e with BBU? LSI is hard to beat for your requirements.