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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    I have two Areca cards in a server. The ARC-1680 appears just fine. Web GUI works. The ARC-1223 times out now after attempting to create a virtual disk from the RAID set. The RAID 5 set is built from 7 IronWolf 8TB drives and appears to work fine. I switch to the second controller (1223) with...
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    Areca card remotely logged into? Hacked? Security Flaw?

    I have a relatively new Areca ARC-1882IX-16. I set the admin password to a new password and everything was working well. I forgot that I had the LAN IP port forwarded to an external IP. This let my Areca become exposed to WAN logins. OK so any idea how 5 different IP addresses from...
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    Areca SSD RAID performance low

    turns out the 1680ix-16 is actually a 3Gbps card. The SSDs will only operate in 1.5Gbps if 6.0 is not available. Here is an overview of my findings Firmware is 1.51(most recent) I plugged in a sata 2 SSD and it showed the full SATA300. I plugged in a sata 2 HDD and it showed the full...
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    Areca SSD RAID performance low

    I have an Areca setup a RAID6 with 6 Kingston V300 desktop SSD drives. (not worried about them not being enterprise) Bonnie++ shows some rather low results. Because of the way bonnie outputs it's results, I uploaded the HTML format to my site...
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    RAID5 SSDs with Areca Card - Mail server

    ok sounds great. I will go the RAID6 route with 1 spare. Benjamin at Areca said they do not recommend mixing drives. I'll take that into consideration as well.
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    RAID5 SSDs with Areca Card - Mail server

    Hey, I currently have 6 machines that RAID1 with SSDs. They have been running well for about a year. In each system, Drive 1 is an Intel 120GB and Drive 2 is a Kingston SSDNow 120GB. I overprovisioned them to only see 100GB of the 120GB while creating the software RAID (mdadm) in centos. I...
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    Linux Server -- dual NIC to redundant Switches

    I have a LAGG setup, in pfSense, from two NIC ports that feed two separate managed switches (DGS-1210-24) that each feed into the CentOS server that ultimately bonds the connections from both switches. hardware/software: - pfSense Gateway with 6 NICs -- 2 configured with link aggregation to...
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    Areca card replaced -- missing drives

    After replacing our Areca 1680xi-16port card, I have discovered that 3 of our disks are now "missing". Please see output below for old and new layout. Card was swapped and existing SFF cables reconnected. Hopefully this will help: Layout with old raid card before taken out...
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