Areca 1880

[Computurd]

well, such is life on the cutting edge fellas. Believe me i know how frustrating and disappointing it is, so im not trying to be sarcastic by any means. i truly lucked out with areca throwing out the unigen for me, before that i had spent HOURS trying to find a compatible chip, looked at memory until my brain was fried
The performance is worth it though! I have thrown my lot in entirely with the areca, sold the 9260-8i today. she will be missed, but onwards~! to 2208 we go!

[SteveRo]

I received a stick of the mushkin yesterday and it doesn't work for me. The controller boots up and detects 4GB but in the log it shows a memory error and I can't boot into windows. I went ahead and ordered a 4GB module directly from Tekram and got an RMA to send the mushkin back.

I'm having a problem getting archttp to recognize my 1880 in Win 7 X64. Any suggestions what I can do to get that working?

Mr Tutto - I couldn't get archttp to work with 1880 either so i just started going through the ethernet port - actually easier i think.

[Serra]

I already put this up in the other thread, but it would be good to know what everyones firmware revision / hardware revision is that is having an issue. Off the top of my head I am not sure what my system is running, but I will try to find out tonight or tomorrow.

And again, I may have an R&D version, so there is the potential that something is different about mine. The Mushkin stock and Kingston stuff should be identical though, so hopefully if there are ongoing issues a firmware update will fix them (I know that Mushkin and Areca are working together on getting them added to Areca's compatibility list, so presumably if there is a problem with production firmware it is being addressed...?).

[Nizzen]

I received a stick of the mushkin yesterday and it doesn't work for me. The controller boots up and detects 4GB but in the log it shows a memory error and I can't boot into windows. I went ahead and ordered a 4GB module directly from Tekram and got an RMA to send the mushkin back.

I'm having a problem getting archttp to recognize my 1880 in Win 7 X64. Any suggestions what I can do to get that working?

I just know that archttp is working fine for me and win7 64. Too bad about the memory.

I am still glad that I bought the ARC 4gb memory, though expensive. But it works

[Computurd]

i am not having any issue with archttp either. you might check your firewall/internet explorer settings. sometimes the intranet can be blocked for security reasons. i am using win7 x64 as well btw.
you do have to select the controller though on the top line of the device listing before you hit 'launch browser'. other than that you guys shouldnt be having any issues. maybe also check your AV and see if it is blocking it.
i am using it with firefox, but some use IE if they run into compatibility issues.

@steve the more i think about it the more i feel it might be a heat issue. i had some similar issues before but with the 512 chip it came with, strange it got hotter than the 4gb...however, a fan fixed it. i am sure you have a fan on it, but....
also have you checked the error log of the controller? what does it say? surely there is some sort of error listed there...

[Computurd]

hey guys may have found the issue with your ARCHHTP instals...while looking through some things with the driver i found this:

* Known Issues

The driver version 6.20.00.14 had been certified by Vista WHQL at 2007/03/22,
but there have a known issue :
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The Areca Virtual SCSI RAID Device can't be installed automatically.

If you loaded controller driver while system installation,
the "Areca Virtual SCSI RAID Device" driver can't be installed automatically.
This device will shows as a Question Device in the Other Device tree.
So you have to installed the driver manually.

P.S. The Areca Virtual SCSI RAID Device is necessary for controller management software
such as Archttp and CLI.

[Tutto]

These were my results with 12 Hitachi C15K147 drives running in RAID 0 with the 1GB module that came with the card.



The improvements I got after installing 4GB amazed me but I can't for the life of me figure out why my writes went down so substantially.

I got ARCHTTP working by uninstalling and then reinstalling.

Tomorrow after work, I'll be installing the 8 Vertex 2 drives I have.

[Computurd]

Cant wait to see the vertex results
tbh i am suprised at how well those platters look on there! those Hitachis are beasts though

[Tiltevros]

Hmmm im ready to compite u guys 1880 on the way

[Tutto]

Any idea why my writes suffered so much after installing the 4GB module?

[SteveRo]

Mr Tutto - what 4Gb cache dimm are you using now - you sent mushkin back right?

[SteveRo]

Hmmm im ready to compite u guys 1880 on the way

Mr Tilt - congrats on your acquisition! looking forward to some awsome screenshots from you!

[Tutto]

Mr Tutto - what 4Gb cache dimm are you using now - you sent mushkin back right?

Unigen, got it directly from Tekram and yes, I sent the mushkin back.

I hate to keep asking but why do you think my writes suffered the way they did with the new module?

[SteveRo]

I am connecting from work so for some reason i can't see the pictures - try playing around with controller settings.
Also - this is magnetic storage right? if yes, if you haven't already - run iometer write tests with varying qdepths to get a better idea of what is going on.

[tiro_uspsss]

In the future, but not tomorrow

Areca is also uprgading in the future

when then?

[Tiltevros]

i know someplaces that we can find the compatible DIMM for the 1880

[F.E.A.R.]

I´m looking for a comparison (only realworld) between ARC-1231/1261/1280ML and ARC-1880.
I to prefer OS-Boot (incl. initialisation), App- and Game-Loading. (or the 104-app-loadup from NapalmV5)

And which SATA-HDDs (Non-Raid-Edition) running stable with the 1880?
I think, the 1880 is very b-i-t-c-h-y with SATA-Drives.

I the past i heard the ARC-16xx-Series simulates the SATA-Protocoll only by software. And the 1880 is a SAS-HBA, too.

[SteveRo]

@ Mr. Fear - pcmark vantage should be a pretty good indication of relative performance, take a look at the orb - anvil, nizzen and computurd's scores are all stellar.

http://service.futuremark.com/search...esolution=-100

As to the validity of pcmv as a worthwhile benchmark -

http://www.futuremark.com/pressroom/...aper_v1.0_(PDF)

google "pcmark vantage review" and you'll get lots of nice night time reading -

http://techgage.com/article/futuremark_pcmark_vantage/
http://www.elitebastards.com/index.p...=480&Itemid=27
xbit did a pretty nice review - http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/oth...k-vantage.html

not what you were looking for perhaps but better than nothing - hope this helps.

[F.E.A.R.]

Ok, thx...


@ all

What is max. PCIe-Clock?

[Tiltevros]

@ F.E.A.R. the 1880 is a sas-hba???
real world application for a home user, overclocker or Game user????
Because if u want to spent 1.000 $ on a raid controller just for opening 104 applications and play freeshell??? the target group that ARC or LSI or Adaptec or whateverbrand makes Raid controllers doesnt spent a cent in RnD for booting times only for one reason
Datacenters and in general Server are not desing for rebooting or restarting they take a nice mark for their uptime.
Now if u want to speak for ur realtesting Yes the ARC 1880 with 4GB cache performs way better than the previews models. the reason?? PCIE version2 and 800Mhz for the Dimm. how u will break the timerecords with ARC1880 in "real life" test??
Simple.
Buy the controller 1000 $
buy the 4GB dimm ~250 $
buy the BBU ~120 $
enable the prefetch and superfetch and Read ahead then
run the test one time then unplug the pc plug back it up and then puch the powerbutton, boot in windows and then run the test again..

now

Ok, thx...


@ all

What is max. PCIe-Clock?

i didnt understand ur question here.

[F.E.A.R.]

Yes. the 1880 is a SAS-HBA (see website)...

I mean the PCIe-Clock from the mainboard. Default is 100MHz (true?)
And what is the max. PCIe-Clock? (without destroying the MB or the controller)

[Tiltevros]

Yes. the 1880 is a SAS-HBA (see website)...

I mean the PCIe-Clock from the mainboard. Default is 100MHz (true?)
And what is the max. PCIe-Clock? (without destroying the MB or the controller)

wow really ?!?!?!?!

http://www.dataonstorage.com/technol...ware-raid.html

[F.E.A.R.]

I´m proudly to present the 1261ML (2GB-Module) with my new system (Core i7-950)

[Computurd]

the max PCI-e that i can run the 1880 at is 107. i have reached higher with other controllers of course, notably the areca 1220 & 1680 (115 here and there) the highpoints go to that range as well (3510 & 3520 & ispitatthenameof4320)
however the cards with the lsi ROC 2108 all seem to balk at higher pci-e. 107 is the highest for the 9260 and 9211, and as far as i can tell, the 1880. i think it is almost some type of built in protection on the card that is stopping it. maybe they have recieved to many RMA from pcie damage? who knows. but something seems to be limiting it.
steve-o my friend have you pushed the pcie on the 1880 yet? i know you are the master at pci-e clocking

very impressive with the 1261...can we get some array details?

[F.E.A.R.]

2x Acard 9010 @ Quad-Raid 0 + PCIe-Clock 120MHz (Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R + Core i7-950 @ 4GHz (20x 200MHz))
PCIe-Clock is the key

from 100 to 120MHz = 1600MB/s. to ~1920MB/s. (both 20%)

And yes, @ PCIe 121MHz i get errors with the 1261...