Recent content by Zagor64

I would recommed an Areca controller. I purchased and areca 1230 off ebay(dealer) about 4 months ago for $350 and it had 1GB cache. It is PCIE. It has 12 SATA2 ports. I initially created raid5 using four WD 2TB green drives. This past week I added another four 2TB green drives (same as the...

You are right. I was initially confused by having to also expand the volume set but like you said, it makes sense to allow the use of multiple virtual drives from the same raid set. I just wish they would make it a little more clear in the web console instuctions. As far as using the web...

Thanks for the info. I was able to use the volume set expansion in the cards BIOS (took an additional four hours). Everything went smoothly. I now have 12.7TB of available space and all my data is still there. Really love this Areca controller. Very fast too.

I have an ARECA 1230 controller and setup a RAID5 with four 2TB WD and all is working well. Yesterday I decided to use online expansion and added four more 2TB WD drives for a total of eight drives. I used the raid web console to expand the RAID set and it took about 22 hours. Now I need to...