Recent content by Lifespeed

I upgraded my 1882ix-16 to 8GB without issue. I think I found the memory part number in this forum somewhere, although I don't recall the part number unfortunately. A search might find it. I found it a worthwhile upgrade, dramatically increasing write speeds. Admittedly just to the RAM...

Is it possible, or low-risk even if possible, to add several hard drives at once to expand a RAID6 array? I have 7 each Western Digital 14TB 0F31284 WUH721414ALE6L, and would like to add 3 more to my Areca 1882ix-16.

Thanks for this big picture update. I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't think about replacing/upgrading my RAID card (1882ix-16) very often, this is my second card since 2004. It's a big undertaking involving a lot of $$ for the card and of course a new set of drives, and the...

I have pretty reliable underground electric service in my neighborhood, so I fearlessly started a week-long expansion from 6 to 7 each 14TB Western digital gold drives in RAID6 on an 1882ix-16. Without the battery backup module for the raid card connected, as it has given me problems at boot in...

It doesn't much matter if the data is static, performance is degraded as new writes are much more likely to be fragmented. Everybody knows if you want maximum performance you should keep your hard drive(s) less than full. If you're under 80% full and still seeing poor performance, you might...

Probably just more full, and fragmented.

So I removed the 1882ix-16 and Windows booted fine. Then I removed the battery backup from the RAID card, and it stopped beeping. It was the beeper on the battery backup that had been beeping, not the RAID beeper. I put the RAID card back in the PC and it booted fine. So it looks like the...

How did this work out? Photos, part numbers, etc?

Did you ever replace your ARC-1882ix-12 fan, and if so what did you use?

Yes, I have a battery backup. PCs have a 5V standby power supply as well, which is hot even when the PC is "off". I have no idea which is powering the beeper, or if the periodic beeping is trying to tell me something. I'll report back after work this evening. I think after I switched to UEFI...

A couple days ago my Windows 10 Pro PC with Areca ARC-1882ix-16 crashed and rebooted in the middle of the night, but got stuck at the windows logo screen with the spinning circle. Thinking it was a corrupted windows NVME SSD, I did a fresh Windows install to an old spinny hard drive to try and...

LOL, I think we all know how to make labels. Is there no identifying data on the drive itself that can be read by the card? It is probably a good idea to label them just in case.

Can't say I have ever had a need to use these commands. Should one need to do this, how would you know which drive goes where?

The Ubiquiti US-16-XG switch has 170Gb of non-blocking BW, it is unlikely to be a bottleneck. Good point regarding Gbytes vs Gbits. I tried re-running iPerf to check, but something was blocking the network connection. It wasn't Windows 10 firewall, will have to check the new pfSense router -...

Just wanted to update this thread; I've connected two PCs using Mellanox MCX311A-XCAT ConnectX-3 EN SFP+ to a US-16-XG Ubiquiti switch uplinked to a pfSense router running on Supermicro X11SDV-4C-TP8F 10Gb SFP+ Xeon-D motherboard. It is impressive, I know have true SAN speeds to my RAID array...