Anything similar to that card, but at a more friendly price point?
It may be a bit less intuitive, but I think
RocketRAID's offering may work with a bit of elbow grease and cord management.
I assume you want to be able to boot the array, which is the problem. So far, all that's 6.0Gb/s and bootable, are offerings from ATTO and Areca. Of the two, Areca's cards are cheaper.
There are cheaper solutions that will boot, but they're all 3.0Gb/s, which is already being pushed near or even over the sustained transfer rates that 3.0Gb/s can provide = 270 - 275MB/s (i.e. most fast SSD's are generating ~250MB/s, and the C300 can go up to 330MB/s).
This means, if you try and run a disk that can produce more than what the port can take, you're going to throttle. So for SSD's, you really want to use a 6.0Gb/s card.
Also, of the non bootable 6.0Gb/s cards for OS X (driver support only) that are inexpensive (under $100), they're all eSATA.
As per Highpoint, I'd avoid it at any cost. There's reports of problems as a general rule, nor do they design or manufacture anything they sell = support dept. doesn't really know what they're doing. They've a few proper RAID cards that claim to be bootable under OS X, but don't provide the EFI firmware according to users that have bought them more recently (I presume there's problems, so they pulled it - this has been at least 6 months it's been unavailable IIRC).
... kind of says not bootable with a 2010 mac pro
See above.
Most of thier gear isn't bootable under OS X, and some that's claimed it, can't be flashed, as they don't actually make the EFI firmware available.
I have 2 killer ssd's patriot inferno 200gb they are clones of owc 200gb ssd's..
I would like to use them inside the mac pro without using any of the 4 bays or the optical bay. if I buy the arc-1880i it is over kill also I don't quite understand how to wire the two ssd's to that card.
Where do you even plan to put them then?
