Areca 1882, the new speed King?

[Sandon]

Go to 2cpu.com -> Forums -> Storage
You'll see a hell of a lot of it.
What it should look like is, unfortunately, not what it does look like when we had Areca issues If I only had issues with one controller, I'd scratch it as a faulty one.

The only time I have ever had issues with the array disappearing and/or showing multiple raid sets (all inaccessible) is when at one point the volume states became a *FAILED* state which would mean 3 disks failing on raid6 or 2 disks failing on raid5, etc...

Also with the newer firmware (not necesarily cards) the cards are much better about detecting this situation and automatically reviving the failed volume set. I actually couldn't get it to fault the array if I had the disks hooked back in as it kept reviving the failed array. I was purposely doing this as I was writing up a wiki article for areca raid recovery (if say the wrong disk was pulled) for the company I work for.

Also Areca is one of the easier raid controllers to recover the array by re-creating it with the no init/rescue option. I myself have recovered a raid5 array with no corruption when the wrong disk was pulled when it was degraded.

The thing is. I have used areca, 3ware, and LSI and I have seen far more arrays lost to quirks on 3ware/LSI than I have on areca (we are talking 100+ machines of each brand).

Biggest problem I have had with areca is the ARC-1222's as I mentioned.

[alfaunits]

The thing is. I have used areca, 3ware, and LSI and I have seen far more arrays lost to quirks on 3ware/LSI than I have on areca (we are talking 100+ machines of each brand).

The problem with that is that we don't see people reporting issues with LSI - so we an't just go imagining how much it fails. We do see failures with Areca (myself much more than with LSI).
This is pure what-you-see-is-all-you-can-base-your-opinion-on.
You could be right - but the big bulk of complaints at RAID controllers are on Areca. That's all I need to see to avoid them.