Areca 1882, the new speed King?

[Sandon]

Nah, it is normal raid6 as I tested the copy speed before I just didn't publish it. Anyway so far no more timeouts or drive failures so I am guessing it was just a bad disk.

[Nizzen]

Builded a raid-6 array with 8x Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000, and it init in 07:11:58.
Comparing to you're 24x3tb @ 008:19:44, the Areca 1880 is SLOW

The Areca 1882s is ready for shipping to everyone who wants. My supplyer atleast said so :p

[z3mr2]

Just received the ARC-1882LP card, some pics for your viewing pleasure..





So far, ARC-1882i, ARC-1882LP and ARC-1882X are allready in stock and shipping.

The ARC-1882ix-12/16/24 cards still won't arrive until another week..

[z3mr2]

By the way, the new ARC-1882 cards will require a new BBU (ARC-6120-T121).

[Sandon]

By the way, the new ARC-1882 cards will require a new BBU (ARC-6120-T121).

I can verify the BBU was indeed not working but is now that I swapped it with a 1880 to do some testing and well I gotta say that is pretty damn annoying. All their other models took the same BBU.

[z3mr2]

I can verify the BBU was indeed not working but is now that I swapped it with a 1880 to do some testing and well I gotta say that is pretty damn annoying. All their other models took the same BBU.

The new BBU may look the same, but looks can be deceiving....Use the ARC-6120-T121 for the new ARC-1882 series. I've been told that the next firmware release will allow for this model to be used with previous card versions and will eventually be only one BBU.

[Nizzen]

Areca:
"Cache modules for the ARC-1882 are not available at the moment."

[z3mr2]

Areca has stopped all shipments of ARC-6120-T121 because of a potential problem that might occur, no real info was released about the issue they found. Will post once hear anything.

[z3mr2]

Areca has delayed shipments of ARC-1882ix-12/16/24 cards....seems to still be fixing some bugs...(Don't know if it's a good thing or bad) They are pushing back the release until late November now.

[zeroibis]

Do we know when places like newegg are going to get cards like the ARC-1882i in or are they waiting for the entire line to release. Also where are you guys picking up the ARC-6120-T121 battery unit at?

[Nitrobass24]

Where are yall finding these for sale?

[z3mr2]

Do we know when places like newegg are going to get cards like the ARC-1882i in or are they waiting for the entire line to release.

Where are yall finding these for sale?

Just do a quick search...here's what I came up with. They all have the cards in stock right now.

PC-Pitstop

GamePC

Tekram

NWIT

[z3mr2]

Also where are you guys picking up the ARC-6120-T121 battery unit at?

The ARC-6120-T121 has been recalled and currently working on a fix.

[z3mr2]

Just received our first ARC-1882ix-24 to test. The fan definitely has an enterprise feel now, unlike the cheap fan Areca has used in the past.

Having trouble posting pics...I get an error labeled as "undefined" and unable to load.

Tekram stated that they will have a special shipment of ARC-1882ix-12 and ARC-1882ix-16 ports arrive Friday if anyone is interested. Have not checked with other online sources yet.

[Computurd]

excellent glad to hear that these are htting retail Just finished with the 1882x review and it is sent to editor, i should be dropping a link to it tomorrow
on to the IX version, even though i am awaiting availability for the 4gb chip, *as of my last news from areca* there isnt a 4gb ecc ddr3 chip available yet. reminiscent of the 1880IX DRAM delay once it was out...

[z3mr2]

sounds great, looking forward to the review.

[Anvil]

Nice test Computurd

Link to TheSSDReview

I see that you are struggling with bandwidth per controller, I am not able to get more than ~2.nGB/s for reads and that surprised me a bit. (goes for both the 1880 and the 9265)
I had thought that these controllers would scale a bit going from 4 to 6 drives (SF22xx) but that does not seem to be the case. (sequentially)

[SteveRo]

^^ so to get the ~2.n GB/s - what is the optimum number of SF22xx drives for these controllers? Just 2?

edit - Paul - very nice review, well done!

[Anvil]

I've got the results from my testing on both the 1880 and the 9265.
I never posted them as I was sure there was something I was missing (changed settings) but in essence they mirror each other on sequential IO and Paul's review confirms my findings.
(the 9265 is stronger on random iops especially outside the cache)

2 drives on the 1880/4G essentially scores the same as 4 drives in most benchmarks.

[Computurd]

yes the 1880/2 do not go too far over 2 gb/s. the 9265 i did get up over 2.7 so that was good. the arecas are more tuned for low QD performance for sure, while the LSI cards are exactly the opposite.

with the 1880 yes with the right drives 2 is as good as 4 in some cases. especially if you have the 4G. the Arecas cache like crazy, even with datasets larger than the cache, they will partially cache, or something. very hard to impossible to run things out of cache on the arecas with big cache.

thanks for the comments guys, that review was a long time coming. Had some issues with teh classified and its FAIL option ROM. same issue as with teh 9265, but areca issued a fix pretty quick. Then the M4 compatibility issue held me up a bit, really wanted to use them. As you can see in one of the pics the big stack of M4 is just setting there. Crucial and Micron (both sides of their company) have been in contact with me re a fix. it is on their end for sure.
so a few delays, but i think the 1882 will only get better with future firmware. cant wait to test a IX with 4 gb DDR3

[z3mr2]

After seeing Computurds review, now I got the SSD bug and deciding on which SSD drives to get. It used to be that SLC and MLC was a way to pick SSD drives for your specific need. However, I'm finding that's no longer the case since manufacturers aren't listing it the specs anymore. Am I wrong to assume this?

So far I'm eyeing the Corsair Force GT, OWC Mercury Extreme or Crucial M4's to use with the ARC-1882ix card

[z3mr2]

Computurd....Kudos on the review.!

[Computurd]

The M4 issue is nearing resolution. Seems LSI has issued a fix, now it needs to trickle down to us. Then we can test and see scaling. My initial gut feeling is M4 all the way

[z3mr2]

The ARC-6120-T121 has been recalled and currently working on a fix.

FYI, the ARC-6120-T121 BBU for the ARC-1882 series is now available. According to Tekram, they are now shipping the new BBU's

[Smikk02]

Hi Guys,

Just joined the forum after reading some of the comments about the areca 1882 card. I'm new to this, so I apologize if I'm missing something basic.

I have a 1882x that I purchased back in late October with a bbu (I know I read that the bbu was recalled, but I'm not sure if that is what is causing my troubles), it is connected to a ASUS maximus iv extreme-z motherboard (with EFI bios) with a core i7 2600k processor and I am using a single 26 foot mini-sas cable to connect the card to my sans-digital eliteStor 4u 24-bay sas 6g/sata 6g enclosure (the model number is ES224X6+B and I believe it has an LSI 6G expander in it). I have 12 hitachi 3tb ultrastars populating the first 12 bays on the enclosure in a raid 6 write-back config and 8 wd-re4 green 2tb hdd in the last 8 bays of the enclosure in a raid 5 write-back config. The first issue I am having is that it is taking about 4.5 days for the Hitachi volume to initialize (I am using foreground initialization) and after it completed initialization I keep getting constant timeout errors on the volume (the second issue)(I haven't initialized the wd volume yet), I had to rebuild one drive (in bay 12) of the Hitachi volume and again it is taking about 4 days to rebuild.

Originally I thought the time for initialization and rebuild was normal for such a large volume but after the constant timeout errors and reading about how long the initialization is suppose to take I'm not sure what's going on with my setup, any help in pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance.