Areca driver corruption

[TV Addict#2]

I've had my old card for long time and have crash the system many times(10 or more) testing with never a failure to boot from the array

does this happen often

[Nizzen]

Never heard about this issue before.

I have no problems with Areca 1680ix-12 and Areca 1880ix-24. Rock stable

[TV Addict#2]

I have to agree,even as a boot drive this one presents no problems in abusive usage patterns

[alfaunits]

I've had my old card for long time and have crash the system many times(10 or more) testing with never a failure to boot from the array

does this happen often

Go to forums.2cpu.com, check the Storage subforum - it doesn't happen often, only one such report a day And note that 2cpu.com is often down, so many don't get reported
Theoretically, system crashes must not cause a RAID volume corruption, but Areca often looses such arrays. It does depend on several factors though - mostly disks used, then PSU quality and of course making sure the Areca CPU is cooled correctly.

[Nizzen]

Looks like that the "old" areca cards does have some problems. The newer Areca cards seems to have less to zero problems.