Areca 1880

[Computurd]

there arent any out there other than kingston, which are discontinued, thus expensive as hell.

[DeViTTo]

Bit of 4 drive Raid0 action 64k stripe. P40 Corsair.

[Nizzen]

Atto is epic fail with a controller with cache.. The numbers are most cache numbers.

Use Iometer, everest, or even hdtune. Crystal diskmark with testfile over cachesize and ASS ssd bench.

[Anvil]

5R0 Vertex 2, 60GB, stripe size 32KB

7.9 all the way, looking good

C:\Windows\system32>winsat disk
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-seq -read -n 0'
> Run Time 00:00:02.62
> Running: Storage Assessment '-ran -read -n 0'
> Run Time 00:00:00.17
> Running: Storage Assessment '-scen 2009 -drive C:'
> Run Time 00:00:51.18
> Running: Storage Assessment '-seq -write -drive C:'
> Run Time 00:00:01.15
> Running: Storage Assessment '-flush -drive C: -seq'
> Run Time 00:00:00.39
> Running: Storage Assessment '-flush -drive C: -ran'
> Run Time 00:00:00.28
> Running: Storage Assessment '-hybrid -ran -read -n 0 -ransize 4096'
NV Cache not present.
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-hybrid -ran -read -n 0 -ransize 16384'
NV Cache not present.
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 930.38 MB/s 7.9
> Disk Random 16.0 Read 490.57 MB/s 7.9
> Responsiveness: Average IO Rate 0.11 ms/IO 7.9
> Responsiveness: Grouped IOs 4.56 units 7.9
> Responsiveness: Long IOs 1.31 units 7.9
> Responsiveness: Overall 5.99 units 7.9
> Responsiveness: PenaltyFactor 0.0
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Write 3390.42 MB/s 7.9
> Average Read Time with Sequential Writes 0.231 ms 7.9
> Latency: 95th Percentile 0.286 ms 7.9
> Latency: Maximum 24.231 ms 7.9
> Average Read Time with Random Writes 0.119 ms 7.9
> Total Run Time 00:00:57.19

[Computurd]

WOW awesome results!

[DeViTTo]

Atto is epic fail with a controller with cache.. The numbers are most cache numbers.

Use Iometer, everest, or even hdtune. Crystal diskmark with testfile over cachesize and ASS ssd bench.

I know Nissen I only have 512k but I suppose it still kicks in even so on writes even when testing 1gb atto. I will take your advice though still not sure what best stripe size to use general usage with the areca seems they like smaller stripe size. Any suggestions for boot and apps general use 128k or smaller with this areca?

[hlonipha]

I know Nissen I only have 512k but I suppose it still kicks in even so on writes even when testing 1gb atto. I will take your advice though still not sure what best stripe size to use general usage with the areca seems they like smaller stripe size. Any suggestions for boot and apps general use 128k or smaller with this areca?

my 1880i comes in tomorrow with a pair of c300 256gigs

Wondering about the same.. which stripe size is best for games, apps windows experience. also does the card comes with memory or do I have to buy a 2 gig stick ? as the only 4 gig stick that could be use with the card is no longer available.

[Computurd]

that version of the card does not allow memory expansion, only the arc1880ix-12 and up allow expansion!
that unit comes with 521 mb of memory, no upgrading!
(should still be a good card, but for that much cache i personally wouldve gotten a 9260-8i. better low cache performer!!)

[hlonipha]

that version of the card does not allow memory expansion, only the arc1880ix-12 and up allow expansion!
that unit comes with 521 mb of memory, no upgrading!
(should still be a good card, but for that much cache i personally wouldve gotten a 9260-8i. better low cache performer!!)

i wish i would have known about this earlier today. hopefully the new setup is better than my motherboard controller with my intel drives.

[F.E.A.R.]

there arent any out there other than kingston, which are discontinued, thus expensive as hell.

sona.de recommends this 4GB-modules (~ US-$ 348)

http://translate.google.com/translat...-DDR2-4096-ECC (but only DDR2-667)

[F.E.A.R.]

Is the ARC-1880 including Multilanes?

[hlonipha]

Should I leave 64k as raid 0 stripe size? I setup the raid as quick volume raid setup. Should I do it in any other way?
Hlo

[SteveRo]

experiment and see - with areca controllers with SSDs usually smaller strip is faster.

[F.E.A.R.]

Realy?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...4&postcount=26

[Nizzen]

ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/BIO.../ARC1880/Beta/

1880 beta bios

I will try tomorrow

Good night from Norway (00:25)

[Computurd]

ty nizzen for the notice!

2010-1-4
1 Rebuild all SAS model
V1.48 20100104

this is what i was waiting for! i knew they had to be running an older sas set because they seemed to be running the same FW as other cards on it...

[Computurd]

new firmware...
gah! gonna have to get into benchmode again...lets see what vantage thinks of this!

[F.E.A.R.]

@ Computurd

You have PM

[SteveRo]

Realy?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...4&postcount=26

Good morning Mr FEAR,

I found with 1231/acards that i got my best pcmv suite scores with 4k stripe.
Mr Anvil should chime in, with SSDs instead of acards I thought 4k stripe was still the best.

[SteveRo]

new firmware...
gah! gonna have to get into benchmode again...lets see what vantage thinks of this!

Wow CT, huge score there guy!

[Nizzen]

http://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?ap...tach_id=373808

4k random read Iometer;

New firmware:

Iops?

[SteveRo]

Very nice numbers Mr Nizzen, what drives and how many?
Do you have your 4GB cache yet?

[Anvil]

Good morning Mr FEAR,

I found with 1231/acards that i got my best pcmv suite scores with 4k stripe.
Mr Anvil should chime in, with SSDs instead of acards I thought 4k stripe was still the best.

I'll find out this weekend.
The 1880 does seem to be a bit limited at 4K strips, that is, using > 3-4 SSDs

[Tiltevros]

so 16k is the best for ARC and intels?

[Nizzen]

Very nice numbers Mr Nizzen, what drives and how many?
Do you have your 4GB cache yet?

They epic failed and sendt 2gb memory. 4 gb memory with UPS express

The iometer test was with 1gb memory. I want the 4gb now !