Areca 1882, the new speed King?

[Computurd]

@felix-mostly just a good feeling lol. seriously, some raid controllers will throttle if they overheat, so yes there are a few advantages, key being less forced air needed and no throttling. any evidence of endurance increases would be anecdotal at best.

@Tutto- hit it with a hairdryer, on LOW first. they use a thermal glue that is sticky as hell. so warm the Heatsink up a bit with a hairdryer to loosen it, then slide it off, do not pull straight off. so you would just slide it off the edge of the chip.

[Rubycon]

I have the 1880ix-24 here with the long heatsink (fanless). It will get warm if there is no airflow. Considering these are at home in servers with a ton of axial flow I compromised with a 120mm Gentle Typhoon 1850 blowing (full speed) right on the card from the side. Card temps are 26C, CPU temp 45C. Without the fan CPU temps would climb into the 70s. It can take a lot of heat though. The 1680 series OTOH would sound a cpu overheat alarm at 70C. Stuffed in a case with little airflow and next to HOT GPUs (GTX480s) this could easily happen. Keep air flowing around the cards and they will stay healthy.

[Tutto]

I just finished modifying my 1882ix-12. I went with a Silenx Ixtrema / Enzotech combination. Now my card runs at 35C compared to the mid 60s. I'll sleep better tonight

[Computurd]

looks great, and yes there are big advantages

[Rubycon]

It's easier to post a pic than try to explain what was done. :-)

[Computurd]

beeyutiful....I like it...i have a 120 on something right now too, held down with double sided tape until i find a better solution

[Anvil]

My fan is sitting on the divider in a 800D.
(a low rpm fan from Noctua, 8cm I believe)

Makes a huge difference vs the passive heatsink, temps are in the 40s iirc. (Centigrades that is)

[Computurd]

Usually direct airflow is the best option, makes life simple. Elaborate heatsinks and water i use when i need a slim one slot solution (to not interfere with SLI).

[ipeefreely]

Hi all,

I picked up a ARC-1882IX-16NC a few weeks ago and finally got around to start playing with it!

This is my first raid card, I looked at other/cheaper cards decided to get something I wouldn't grow out of in a year.

I'm looking to setup one RAID 6 array with 4 Seagate 3TB HD (ST3000DM001). I have one right now and I'm going to pickup the others this weekend (if their on sale again).

So far I put it in my main rig (just using the onboard vid right now) upgraded the BIOS/BOOT/FIRM/MBRO to 1.50 and attached my one HD in JBOD.

Any tips on basic the settings? I had a read though the manual but it's still new to me (I have been reading treads on these cards for the past few months).

So far the card sits at 60. With my 120mm fan it's down to 57 so I'd like to rig up something like the examples above!

Any way a couple of pics:

[davidm71]

I hear ya. I went the hard route when I got my 1880 and tried to save a few bucks and it cost me more in aggravation than anything else. I picked the controller up on NewEgg open box for $600 and got the battery for $92 so I shouldn't be complaining about the price of the memory

I just picked up the 1882I for $585 ($591 including shipping) from Newegg. Birthday present. Going to be raiding four 300gb Velociraptors. Anyone know what cable I need? 6gb/s does it matter?

Thanks.

[arcadiabc]

I have the ARC-1882I x8 and I can hear the high pitch sound of the fan when all the other case fans have powered down. I am wonder how much quieter is the SilenX iXtrema Pro. Or can I just get away with just installing a copper heat sync like the Enzotech and just have a controlled 120mm blowing air on to it.

[Computurd]

Nice stuff ipeefreely, and a good fan as well, i love those

the 1882i is a good pick for that setup, you will have to use sas to sata, no difference in 3 v 6gb/s. just dont skimp on cables, get some good quality ones!

[Tutto]

I just re-installed Windows 7 and when I attempted to install archttp/MRAID I'm getting this error:



I thought it might because Java wasn't installed but I did that and still get the error. Any idea what I have to do?