Good SATA II 3.0Gb controller for FreeBSD 6.x/amd64

[Mike Jakubik]

Gabriele Cecchetti wrote:
> Any suggestion for a good SATA II 3Gb controller for FreeBSD 6.x/amd64 ?
> I prefer controller with
> - stable and working driver (not beta driver or with some problem)
> - command-line utilities as needed (create and rebuilt array on the fly)
> - good performance with RAID5 with every operation done by hardware
> (My CPU has no time to do XOR calculations and other raid stuff :-))
> - PCIExpress interface (not PCI-X!)
> - more than 4 ports (6 or 8 ports)

3ware, Areca, Promise. In that order.