Raid Card for 3TB disks

[dabingo]

Hi,

I'm not too familiar with this stuff so hoping someone can help!

I currently have eight 3TB disks in fairly old machine running Win7. The eight disks are managed by two RAID controllers (also quite old... and slow).

The two controllers are Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA.
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/raid/sataii/aar-1420sa/

The machine they are in is slowly dying bit by bit and I'm migrating to new hardware. I have got my hands on a HP Z400 cheap which I also want to run WIn7 (Win10 eventually).

The HP Z400 has these slots available:
http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c01748486&sp4ts.oid=3912038

What would be a good RAID card for me?

I would like it to take 8+ SATA connectors, and support 3TB disks.
(Ideally, I would like capacity for another couple of drives in the near future).

 

[FireWire2]

The reasonable performance and cost hw raid that I know and used are:
http://www.amazon.com/multiplier-hardware-RAID0-CLONE-Controller/dp/B004JPUZWU/, it needs a SATA host port to control 5x HDD, so if you have a mobo with 3x SATA ports, meaning you can control up to 15x HDD. It got a perfect review from people who used it.

Or you can have a 8x port SATA card like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Ports-Pcie-Sas-Raid-Adapters/dp/B001A26NZS/

Each solution has pro and con