Hardware RAID

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I built a hackintosh machine using a Gigabyte EP45-UD3R motherboard and the lifehacker guide.

My machine seems to be slow. What I mean is it seems to hit the hard drive pretty hard when I do anything and I wait for the drive. I understand that everything loads from the hard drive but it is noticeable compared to my Windows desktop that has close to the same specs.

I would like to speed it up by using hardware RAID. The reason for this post is that I cannot find any great information about what RAID cards Mac OS X supports. I have a Dell PERC 5/i that would be great to use (once I get a motherboard with 2 PCIe 16x slots) however, I have no idea if it's supported.

So does anyone have any recommendations for a bootable RAID setup for a hackintosh?

My machine specs are below:
Gigabyte - GA-EP45-UD3R
E5400 2.7 GHz (to be replaced by a q6600)
2 GB Kingston Hyper-X memory
XFX 9800GT 512 MB Video Card
1 1TB WD 7200 RPM WD10EALS Hard Drive