Recent content by cjlindem

Hmm, yeah that's what I was starting to worry about. With how bad Areca seems to be with end user support, and they're a -big- name. Is LSI's $50 a fee they charge any time an advance replacement is done?

I have an Areca ARC-1222 8 port sas/sata, PCIe controller card. It was great while it was working. A bit less than a year since I purchased it, it's dying. I've found that Areca offers no Advance Replacement option for their warranties. Their US distributor, Tekram, does offer advance...

Well I just tested both the Raid Edition 3, and the Raid Edition 1 as stand alone drives. Going into it, I was so sure they would have similar performance. And Blue Fox, you hit it right on the head... the RE1 drive is almost exactly 40% slower than the RE3. Did hard disk technology really...

I know the controller card is definitely capable of more (like I said it was getting 200MB/s not long ago). The question really, is why putting a -slightly- slower drive into the array caused 40% performance drop on the array

I upgraded my home server over the last week and am running an Arcea ARC-1222 8-port PCIe-x8 SATA RAID controller card. The server had previously used 2x Western Digital 320GB RE (raid edition 1) drives in software Raid 1. I bought 3x newer model Western Digital 320GB RE3 drives so that...