Recent content by tanwedar

Thank you very much :)

Ok, I'll definitely give that suggestion to the people up above me. Do you know of any internal cards like the ones in the ARC-8020s so we don't have to just rip out those cards and pay for the enclosure we won't use.

Well unfortunately I was not in on the decision for choosing the drives, I'm just trying to clean up the problems people created. The drives are the WD20EADS, they are not on the list of drives but they only came out in January I believe. I have no clue how often Areca updates their...

We use two different sets actually. For the single chassis which have 16 drives, either 1TB Seagates or 2TB WD, we use the 1261ML. For the daisied ones we have a 1680ix-16 as the raid card and one 8020 per additional chassis below it. So far we have only added 3 chassis so we total 109TB...

Hi, my company is currently using a few Areca cards in a daisy chain across 4 3U chassis. We have a 1680-16 on the main board and the card from a 8020 module in each of the other chassis. The SAS goes from the main to the 2nd then from the 3nd to the third etc. The Areca cards are giving us some...