Help to choose Raid-6 card.

Hello everyone!
Long time reader, first time poster.

Starting new server build for a friend soon and i'm looking raid6 card. Will start with 10x500gb drives in one raid6 partition. Rest 6 disk are 2TB drives in non-raid.
Usage is raid6 for torrent/network sharing and non-raid for storage.

Disks will be in some kind of 5in3 backplanes.

These 3 card have couch my eye.

Highpoint RocketRaid 3540
LSI Logic SAS/SATA MegaRAID 84016E
Areca ARC-1260

Price wise they right on the money. LSI and Areca are available right away, Highpoint is in backorder 4weeks.

OS is probably a Microsoft product.

Any goods, bads with these cards i should know before purchasing one of these Expensive cards.

Many thanks!!!

Truthfully I went with a high point 4320 and use a chenbro sas expander.. Reason for this is if you ever want expansion its easily available through just another chenbro sas expander. I suppose all 3 would use a sas expander though.. But I've never used an LSI or Areca.. There are 2tb green drives at newegg right now for 139..

Found one German store that spoke english and had one Highpoint 3560 24-port monster in sale with low price tag. Ordered that.

Originally Posted by DJSammy69

Found one German store that spoke english and had one Highpoint 3560 24-port monster in sale with low price tag. Ordered that.

Good choice, mine has been rock solid since it went into production.

Here are some linux benches:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1416399

Why not LSi 9260...?

Originally Posted by XS Janus

Why not LSi 9260...?

It has ONLY 8-ports! If you look at the 3 cards that couch my eye, they all have 16-ports.

Originally Posted by DJSammy69

It has ONLY 8-ports! If you look at the 3 cards that couch my eye, they all have 16-ports.

Ah, OK