Right, Windows 7 x64 doesnt recognise my Adaptec 1210sa Raid Card so I had to roll back my installation to the x32 version and use the XP Drivers, great, I can access all my data... But x32 only uses 3.5GB of the 8GB of Ram installed in my system, boo.

So can anyone reccomend a good 2 port PCI Raid card that has Vista/7 drivers that supports Raid 1 configuration?

this should of just been a pm to craig instead of a thread hahah.

Well this goes out to the other closet geeks aswell Z, I don't think i've come out about how much of an IT Geek I am :-\

I thought you worked for a cabling firm?

To be honest, anything will do. Generally, Adaptec are pretty decent but you can get away with onboard software RAID (aka fakeRAID) unless you spend £250+ on a RAID card complete with onboard memory, battery backup, write-through etc.

My VMware ESXi server (thread in this forum) just uses an OpenFiler virtual machine with both drives in a RAID1 array using software RAID. Only reason I'm doing it that way is that ESXi doesn't support the ICHx RAID controllers.

So if you're not looking for business-level performance and you can deal with the lack of battery backup, a dedicated RAID card isn't going to help.