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My current build for my home lab. ESXi 5.5 ent plus.
HP DL 360 G7 + ilo 3 advanced
Dual quad core xeons with hyperthreading @ 2.2ghz
104 GB RAM
2 x OCZ vertex 4 512gb SSD
6x 1tb WD red in raid 5
Dual 480w psu
10nics - 4 on board, 4 on quad nic pcie card and 2 on dual nic card.
I use...
you need to make sure your using the following url for wsus gpo on server 2012.
http://wsusservername.domainname.com:8530 or 8531 for secure.
eg.
http://wsus01.microsoft.com:8530
once set then wait 24hrs for wsus server to populate machines.
I currently have 16 2TB 7K2 disks and 4x 2tb WD disks.
8x2tb=raid 6 (mainstore)
8x2TB=RAID5 (daily backup of mainstore with retention)
4x2TB WD= starwind san for vmware.
Looking to reduce them to 8 disks by moving to 4TB Hitachi Disks.
Setup a Areca 1880ix-16 on the weekend- took about 4.5hrs to innitialise a 12TB RAID 6 array!!! phenominal!! Sooo fast!!!
I'm using 8x2TB hitachi coolspin 5k3000 disks.
I've ordered 8x2TB 5k3000 to plug into an areca 1880ix16. Will do some benchies once its all plugged together.
The other 8 ports will be for the older 7k2000 2tb model im currently using.
Can the Areca 1880ix support presenting luns to an OS?
I would like to use this card in vmware to (raid6) 8x3TB and present 2TB luns in vmware (to bypass the vmware iscsi 2tb limitation). Is this possible?
The gui on the LSI is very basic. even the dos configuration pages are a bit naff... i.e. basic settings- still give u smart info-but not disk temperatures.
The Areca's have dedicated NIC's for management and the web portal is feature rich. Has full smart, temp, power off hdds to save power...
Mega raid management on LSI is awful! Areca web portal is awesome! I'm looking to ditch 2 dell perc 5i's and LSI 3041e for a 1880ix 24port. so you can probably tell how bad the management software is...
nearly all of my disks have been WD for the last 7 years.
But recently when I bought some WD 2tb green drives- I have had one fail, and 3 more look like on their way out.
For my raid setup I am using Hitachi's and they have been nice and smooth. Since WD got rid of TLER from their budget...
I ordered 8 a few days ago. have set themup in raid 6 on a reca 1222 8 port.
took just over 9 hours to innitialise. Working beautifly atm! no hick ups or issues as of yet.
PS. can someone let me know the latest firmware available for these?
I need your help choosing the correct disks for my raid setup on a Areca ARC-1222.
I currently use WD green 1tb x8 (the older tler models) but now running out of space and looking to replace all 8 disks.
WD2001FASS is mentioned as RAID compatible on the WD site- but not many people use...