[2chesapeakes]

Looking for suggestions on a raid controller. I would like to keep the cost of the controller under $300.00. Currently I have (4) drives in a raid 0 array for the OS. I would like to migrate these drives to the card so at least 4 sata ports are needed. I will also be adding two additinal drives for programs and storage and would like to run a raid 1 array on these drives. I can use the MB for the storage drives to keep the cost of the controller down.
Would a complete reinstall of the OS be required or could I just plug the drives into the controller and have it recognize the drives?

The reason for this added card is not necessarily for speed but more for redundancy.

My current setup is
Rampage II Extreme
975 EE
9 Gig memory
(4) - Ocz drives raid 0 for OS
(1) - DVD drive
(1) seagate 250 Gig storage / program drive


Thanks