Making the right RAID card choice can often depend on your server configuration and drive type(s) as well as OS support for your particular RAID card(s). 

HighPoint, a manufacturer of leading RAID controllers, has announced a new RAID card with extreme performance for a single RAID array. HighPoint 8-Port High-Port-Count (HPC) M.2 controllers deliver unbeatable performance and storage capacity in a compact PCIe device that can be easily integrated into any industry standard computing platform.

There are lots of RAID calculators out there but some intuitive guidance is important when picking the right RAID mode for yourself. This can also depend on whether you are using hardware RAID or software RAID. 

Whether you’re looking to improve your disk I/O performance or provide yourself with disk redundancy, RAID cards are an easy way to make this work. Hardware RAID and software RAID are both options and depending on your use case, one may be better than the other.