Areca 1880

[Computurd]

nah not yet 14 hour day at work today so....now i get to my real work ;0

someone above asked if there is support for 2tb drives, there is, but there are caveat to the types of drives etc. i know you can use the new ones with 4k sectors, but there are conditions to that, there is info at their site on it in the areca manual.

@eva it certainly wouldnt be anythin to keep me from buying or using the card (the heat)

tbh my initial impressions of the card are a little...well...let down? it isnt giving the performance or the latencies that i was getting with the LSI, but that is with cursory examination, and i also have had a random reboot on rock-solid settings, which NEVER has happened with LSi, to early to call it based on that of course, could be a fluke or something. this early, with only playing on it basically, gives me bad vibes. maybe bad install is giving me these strange results, but right now it is flying like a brick compared to the 9260 with fastpath. however, i am sure the install is good because i did a fresh install, Acronis doesnt recognize the controller so it wont restore images to the array unless i use it from an OS, the boot disk isnt allowing it. I am sure there is a way to load the driver, but i have never had to do that with acronis, so i will have to do some learning on that.
latency measured with Everest is .10. need to experiment more though with different settings. i know that read aheads/etc affect these things. got some testing to do...9260 is .08
do not take this as some type of negative comment on performance, it is too early to quantify anything, and also it is apparent they are using their own firmware/drivers etc, so they may need time to mature/develop. the thing is though, honestly, the 9260 is already there...
the memory stick from memoryten didnt work either so that is a BIG GAH!!!!! gonna have some RMA'ing to do. need a solid link on some ram that works with this thing, emailed areca to see if they can give me a link to something specifically. I do not want to order the ram used for their older cards though, it doesnt run at the speed of the ram on the card right now, it is slower.

also gonna around with the settings a bit, try the different drivers, and maybe reflash firmware, anything....