Areca 1882ix-12 4G

[Computurd]

Quite possibly the sexiest RAID controller Ive ever touched :)

note the ver 3.0 tag...

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[ehorn]

That is quite a sharp looking piece of gear.

(12) 6Gb drives is a nice fit for PCIe 3.0... Sweet spot for X8 too.

Any plans for a review? :)

[Computurd]

of course, but only after some Xtreme benching at the Flash Memory Summit, we have some exciting stuff planned!

[Kain665]

TT has a booth?

[Computurd]

oh no, we are going to be there but there is some extracurricular benching with LN2 and a few (maybe 4?) RAID controllers. We have 3 1880s with 4Gb of cache and teh 1882ix-12 and a whole stack of SSDs. Are you going to be in the area? this is gonna be sweeettt... we plan on doing some PCMV benching :)

[mike]

looks so sweet!!! Shold be a fun new toy to play with :up:

[Kain665]

Yes I will be. I'll try to make it by

[Highendtoys]

I hit the 1882i v3 the other day if anyone cares. It's in the consumer format. you'll have to wait till Paul gets his hand on it for the enterprise stuff.

[ehorn]

of course, but only after some Xtreme benching at the Flash Memory Summit, we have some exciting stuff planned!

Sounds like some good fun.


I hit the 1882i v3 the other days if anyone cares. It's in the consumer format.

Always interested...

[Computurd]

yeah guys, any XSers in the area, we are happy to have people stop by and party. :party::party3:We are looking to have some serious fun and overclocking. BYOB :explode:

[Kain665]

I'm not drinking LN2 again..

[mike]

yeah guys, any XSers in the area, we are happy to have people stop by and party. :party::party3:We are looking to have some serious fun and overclocking. BYOB :explode:

I am looking forward hanging out and do some clocking!!! Going to be in Santa Clara Monday night Jake is going to be bringing some serious toys by to play with!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D



I'm not drinking LN2 again..

There should be plenty of soda as well, in case you get thirsty !!! :up::up::up:

[mike]

on the road to Santa Clara - just cruising thru Death Valley, should hit Yosemite in the early morning...car full of gear and some LN2...Fugger snucked in the car too...should get there by 10am

[Kain665]

I'll be at our booth from 5:30 to 7:30, if any of you people want to stop by.

[mike]

Benching the Areca 1882 together with the new Corsair Neutron GTX SSDs - running PCmark Vantage; incredible combo!!! So snappy fast!

Here is a result all on air:

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/pcmv/511505/pcmv/503428

Wil update some pictures and screenshots later!

[Computurd]

oh man Kain im sorry we missed you! we had some uber fun but i didnt have time to check XS for a few days....check the news post though!

Mike set the PCMV world record with the 1882!

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/25470/xtremesystems_and_tweaktown_set_pcmark_vantage_wor ld_record_at_fms_2012/index.html
(http://www.tweaktown.com/news/25470/xtremesystems_and_tweaktown_set_pcmark_vantage_wor ld_record_at_fms_2012/index.html)

[tived]

Hi guys,
Where can I get a good deal on these controllers and that will ship to Australia?
I want to replace my two m1015s

Please

Henrik

[mobilenvidia]

Hi guys,
Where can I get a good deal on these controllers and that will ship to Australia?
I want to replace my two m1015s

Please

Henrik
http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=areca+1882&_sacat=See-All-Categories

[tived]

I think those once r pcie 2 and not the newer ver. 3 but I will have to check with him

Thanks

Henrik

[Highendtoys]

You are going to have to tell him to look at the actual sticker on the controller. If it says Ver. 3 then it is the new PCIe 3.0. In my enthusiast review of the ARC-1882i it shows a close up of the sticker.

[tived]

Thanks for that info.

One more question - would it be better to have two controllers over one, sat 2 x 16ch vs 1 x 24ch ?

I need three arrays on my system, OS - Scratch - Storage

On my EVGA SR-2

Thanks

Henrik

[Highendtoys]

SR-2 with controller, LOL

I sold off my SR-2 because I couldn't get a controller to work with it. It was at least a year ago and a half ago but it ticked me off.

We know that something better is coming very soon and I think it will be better for you than the options listed. We can't talk about it but something really cool and fast is on the way.

[Computurd]

yes something new is coming :)

[tived]

Guys, this is not fair, its like climbing a mountain just to get this build and to find that a new mountain has been discovered and needs climbing

I will have to stay with my SR-2 for a few more years

You guys are such teasers :)

Henrik

PS: Already committed to the Areca 1882 its in transit

[Buckeye]

Yeah that is a very nice looking card. About time they put coolers on these.

[Computurd]

You certainly cant go wrong with the Areca :)

[tived]

computurd,

You have been giving it some very good write-up's which is what made me think that this would be the better way in the long run, and if I get ver 3, I can take it to the next workstation - if they don't change the slots by then ;-)
knowing my luck ;-)

thanks
Henrik

[tived]

http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=areca+1882&_sacat=See-All-Categories

Hi guys,

Xmas just came early and I recieved today a very nice package from "terasphere" which is the selling on eBay in the link above

FYI: Just wanted to add that it was a pleasure to deal with terasphere, communication was quick and informative, package was well packed, and it was delivered quickly across the world (US to AUS)

I got an Areca 1882ix-24 Ver:3.0 with 4GB cache module and BBU - very excited ;-) haven't installed it

Does anyone need any photos of any of this before i install it - I believe that computurd, have covered it extremely well already

Now, I just need some hints as how to set this up the best way ;-) please, thanks

Henrik

[mike]

Hi guys,

Xmas just came early ......

Now, I just need some hints as how to set this up the best way ;-) please, thanks

Henrik

Setup best way for what purpose? Be glad to help - but there are so many options in the settings to optimze for!

[tived]

Hi Mike,

thanks very much for taking the time.

Purpose!!! I use this workstation for photo editing, in partiucalar panoramic image, comprised of a few images to several hundreds, most files are in the 20mb to 100mb, with some small sidecar files (xmp), to end up as multi gigabyte file sizes but so far not over 20GB

My philosophy so far is that i need a three step storage solution + backup, which comprises of an OS array(4xSSD), for OS and applications, then an array(8xSSD) for temp/scratch file as well as any page-file, and finally an array(8xHDD) where i store my data on.

The way I see how the data travels in the system is that i load files onto a Storage(array), I then load the images into my program (PHOTOSHOP/BRIDGE, PTGUI, AUTOPANO,etc..) FIRST FOR A RAW TO TIFF CONVERSION (16-BIT), then these get rendered by the PANO program, which both are multi-core aware, in the this process, despite my 48-96GB of ram uses a lot of temp space (currently have 8-900gb (8x120gb)), it then gets saved back to the storage array.

up till recently i use the setup in my sig, but i have since added the Areca 1882ix 24ch to the mix, as i felt i wasn't getting enough throughput on my two IBM M1015 controllers - I admit I could have been getting all this wrong, which is why i am asking for some help here.

The options i have at the moment, is that i have the onboard intel controller but its only SATA-2 and I think is limiting my 4xINTEL 520's, i have the two IBM M1015 8x and the Areca 1882ix 24x. all up i have 12x INTEL 520 120GB, but could add more and i have 8x seagate sv35 which was the wrong drives to buy!!!

i look at the performance that others are getting and i am scratching my soon to be bald head for why i can't get similar results? So i am wondering what i am doing wrong here, i have been reading COMPUTURD's (Paul) articles and how he is getting 1.5GB/s on just 3 INTEL 520 on the Highpoint, surely my ARECA should be able to perform better then it. ????

I really appreciate any help - sorry if i have hi-jacked this thread, its somehow related to the Areca 1882ix Ver 3 ;-)

thanks

Henrik

[Jose Teixeira]

Would you believe this?

http://www.areca.us/support/download/Catalog20130614.pdf

:) The Super Saiyajin raid card :)

Areca 1883ix-xx ports.
Dual core Arm cpu at 1200Mhz
Upgradable up to 8GB DDR3 1866Mhz
12Gb/s SAS drives.
Thanks Areca, our wishes were listened eheh. 8GB cache Jesus Lord.

[SteveRo]

Good find! Availability??

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/875/2vor3.jpg (http://img69.imageshack.us/i/2vor3.jpg/)

[Jose Teixeira]

Good find! Availability??

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/875/2vor3.jpg (http://img69.imageshack.us/i/2vor3.jpg/)

I don't know. Maybe at the end of this year or January.
What kind of Arm cpu would be available? Whatever, it will run the same kernell compiler as the the previous ones.
I was interested on the 1224i-8 for sata ssd but when I discovered this pdf...upgradable up to 8GB Jesus Lord...I think I will wait a bit to see some reviews of this super saiyajin card lol

[SteveRo]

^^ i need to start saving my pennies! :shocked::D

[Jose Teixeira]

Heheh. I need to :) another 1000-1200? card with 8GB olympic pool cache, all the OS system running on buffer and cache.
That's we geek benchmarkers love to use...even LSI 93xx can't be compared to this...

[Da_maniaC]

Not trying to sound nitwitted or na?ve...but is the controller cache (RAM) non-volatile in any way, on this new controller?
I really dig these hardware solutions, but a non-volatile cache would make the product a lot better for end-users i think (yes, i know these products aren't intentionally developed for this market).
Non-volatile cache would allow for any file usage analysation to take place on a much better and more refined scale (assuming you don't just want to keep your system up and running for at least a whole month etc. etc.).

[Jose Teixeira]

Not trying to sound nitwitted or na?ve...but is the controller cache (RAM) non-volatile in any way, on this new controller?
I really dig these hardware solutions, but a non-volatile cache would make the product a lot better for end-users i think (yes, i know these products aren't intentionally developed for this market).
Non-volatile cache would allow for any file usage analysation to take place on a much better and more refined scale (assuming you don't just want to keep your system up and running for at least a whole month etc. etc.).

Yes, you are right. I have a adaptec series 6 with ZMM (zero maintenance module) wich consists on 4GB SLC nand flash to protect the 512mb ddr2 controller cache and this approach is really good. No worries, charge in minutes, always ready to protect.
For me, the only con of areca is that they only offer traditional battery protection instead of flash based.