For about $200 good raid card?

Recommendations on the best performing raid controller compatible with ESXi, which would cost about $200?  I'm looking for something tht supports hardware raid 5 and has onboard cache.  I keep trying to choose cards, make sure they are on the HCL, etc...  There are so many options to choose from it is difficult to know who to choose.

Thank you

Dam sorry I ask than before. as your system is a white box you will be difficulties because of the slot could.i you system which I do not use raid 5, but I backup of virtual machines using a program to my nfs server then my hard drive nfs server are in raid 5 that they are mirrored

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