Areca 1880

[Rubycon]

830s seem to work nice with this host.



The time to init firmware seems to have doubled though (30 seconds).
Wish that was faster but I don't boot that much to worry about it.

[odditory]

SO, Do these B*tches work with the M4's yet?

Yes if you update your M4 firmware. The incompatibility was w/ the M4 not the Areca.

[stevecs]

anyone have any good figures for 8 ssd's on the 1880 in raid-6 mode? Just picked up some of the intel 520's (240gb version / 25% OP) but am wondering if I'm running into card's checksum limit and should jump up to the 1882. Or (which is very likely) the ancient MB I've got here that i'm looking to replace as the PCIe is done through the ICH/MCH chipsets opposed to directly to the cpu.

-crystal disk snippet for random i/o--
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 31.374 MB/s [ 7659.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 57.784 MB/s [ 14107.5 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 224.241 MB/s [ 54746.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 62.190 MB/s [ 15183.2 IOPS]
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[idolclub]

ARC1880 and ARC1882 V1.51 Firmware Release Note (2012-07-04):


2012-2-21
1 Fix PLI SATA/SMP passthrough error is not reported to upper laryer (for SATA write same+WDC4000YS, WDC4000YS report support of
write same but report error if write same SCT is uased)

2012-2-24
1 ARC1882:Add more timeout setting for TOSHIBA
2 Add SCSI Passthrough

2012-3-7
1 Change BUZZER logic when HDD unplug or rebuild complete


2012-3-13
1 Add PL library if 13.0.2.0 support
2 Add MPT of 13.0.1.0 support

2012-3-14

1 Enable PCI-E 3.0 support

2012-3-22

1 Fix ARC-1882 old firmware may corrupt the SBR (24C64)

2012-3-23

1 Fix NESUS testing of TCPIP warning, filter out source IP of 224.0.0.0->239.255.255.255

2012-4-20
1 Fix write same command timeout handling (pl library)
2 Fix 3HDD R6 in terminal config when quick create is used
3 Disable ASPM

2012-4-25
1 Add SUPPORT_512E_DISK
2 Add SUPPORT_HOST_PORT_CONFIG
2012-5-4
1 Add LOG_FAILED_DISK

2012-5-23

1 HITACHI 2T/3T HDD SCT Write Same Problem

2012-5-24
1 SUPPORT_512E_DISK:display HDD attribute

2012-6-5
1 Add LOG_FAILED_DISK (Failed disk is logged in FLASH)
2 FAILED_TIMEOUT_HDD_REMOVED
3 Add "Hot Plugged Disk For Rebuilding" option

2012-6-11

1 Fix event log:if only volume revived and no rebuild reqired do not log
rebuild raidset event
2 ARC1882:PCIE Gen3 support, add option to disable Gen3 (use Gen2)

2012-6-20
1 Fix SATA passthrough write same command mixed with SMART read attribute
2 Patch ARC1680/1880/1882 CPU fan function,


2012-6-28
1 Fix SCSI Pass through
2 Rebuild V1.51 2012-06-28



Download:

ARC1880: http://www.areca.us/support/download...1-20120704.zip

ARC1882: http://www.areca.us/support/download...1-20120704.zip

ArcHTTP v2.2.1-20120503: ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/AP_...2.1_120503.zip

CLI v1.9.0-20120503: ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/AP_...9.0_120503.zip

[Nizzen]

Areca 1880
Build130103 beta 09.01.2013
ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/BIO..._ARC12x3/Beta/

Areca 1882 beta Build20130123
ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/BIO.../ARC1882/Beta/

[Computurd]

Thanks Nizzen

[odditory]

Areca 1880
Build130103 beta 09.01.2013
ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/BIO..._ARC12x3/Beta/

Areca 1882 beta Build20130123
ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/BIO.../ARC1882/Beta/

the beta linked supposedly only addresses "This beta firmware used for fix volume import issue in SANsymphony-V 9.0."

Had snooped their FTP yesterday hoping for a beta that included the volume encryption they announced for 1882's last month (http://www.areca.com.tw/news/2013/0108_2013.htm) but no dice. Anyone been able to make heads or tails of their volume encryption announcement/feature? I sent Kevin an email but got an autoreply that they're out for chinese new year until the 18th.