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Any experiences with the Areca warranty for products purchased used--but still clearly within warranty (based on the FW/BIOS sticker date)?

Sorry to hear about that. We were talking about the 1680 series -- it would seem natural for a different model with a different expander chip to have a different flashing procedure. Doesn't the 1880 have it's own Expander CLI manual explaining the steps? It might have been better to ask here...

Hi Blue Fox, I've been away from the storage world for a few years and looking to upgrade. Could you give a few examples of the higher-performing Broadcom cards these days (or preferably, their OEM flashable versions)? I assume that the better performance comes from the ARM processors and/or...

I have an ARC-1883i with three RAID-5 arrays (4 drives per array, 4-8 TB each, via Intel RE2SV240 expander) AND an ARC-1880i (on another machine) with one directly connected 4-drive RAID-5 array (4TB). All arrays are 64-bit LBA with a 128k stripe size. I need to do some maintenance and have a...

Win 10 desktop versions don't have native iSCSI target creation support, but you can use free third-party software to do so, e.g. https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san-free

It's been a long time since I dealt with an -IX version, but IIRC the "awkward" portion is simply setting up the proper serial (COM port) connection to the expander command-line interface. After that, as with most command-line flashing procedures, it's not complicated but you do have to proceed...

Run chkdsk /r /f X: (whatever drive) and it will find and repair any bad clusters.

I don't know which revision of the Earthwatts you have. I had not-so-good experiences with the first Earthwatts EA430 a long time ago. Do you overclock your I5? With so many sudden drive failures, I'd suspect excessive heat and/or an unstable power supply. The power supply is among the...

How full are the drives? From the screenshot Ghost appears to be doing an intelligent copy and not a blind sector-by-sector copy. At an average read speed of say ~100 MB/sec, 4,000,000 MB will take 40,000 seconds, or slightly more than 11 hours. So yes, 12 hours is fair. Unless there was...

Hardware RAID6 operates on similar principles to unRAID (upto two disks can fail and the data is still OK) , but the controller takes care of everything, so there's no software necessary except to manage the controller. For up to 24 drives, the Supermicro 846s with SAS2 (=SATA3) backplane are...

Hey, sorry, I haven't had time to work on it much since the last update. I hope to spend some time on it over the next week or two.

Yes, sounds correct. Note that 64KB clusters are not supported by pre-XP Windows. Also note that Microsoft does not recommend the use of cluster sizes larger than 64KB. Even 32KB clusters are sufficient for at least up to 2TB. FAT32 allows a maximum of 2^28 clusters, with the caveat that a...

Alright! The SSD seems good, or I was going to have a twinge regret for recommending it to you in the previous thread! Googling for the error shows a few older Gigabyte mobos with these symptoms. Sometimes it was the drive, sometimes the mobo. I think we can safely say your motherboard is just...

Can you try connecting it to another port? Or maybe a USB enclosure?

THIS. With a five-year old Vertex 2, you're playing with fire unless you do frequent backups. Get a replacement, doesn't have to be an Evo. Crucial BX100 250GB is $70 on Amazon, last I checked.

The first few posts in this thread explain what drescherjm aptly summarized. Unless you start off with at least 10,000 identical drives, you should consider the MTBF as BS.

Or heat? Like prolonged 55+?

$350 MSRP for the internal drive. $300 for external. $550 for "duo" external.

Yes, Microsoft's diskspd tool : You don't want the standard sequential tests from this or any other tool because it would involve large unnecessary writes to the SSD and SSDs love sequential IO anyway. To stress the SSD controller, you do a lot of small, random, concurrent I/O. With diskspd...

Just for kicks, I spun up my c. 1995 Seagate 1GB HDD off an IDE add-in card and it works just fine. So yes, a spoonful of sugar + two spoonfuls of crap = crap ;)

If you're buying an LSI SAS2x36-based expander brand new in the US, you get the Intel RES2CV360, not Chenbro (same price). Yes, you'll need a dumb dual-port 8088-8087 adapter ($30), but you get Intel-quality with an Intel-warranty. As for dual-linking or which port to connect to the initiator...

To answer your direct questions first: Yes, definitely update the firmware. The latest is 1.52, dated 2015-11-20. The problem is there have been multiple prior versions also numbered 1.52 (my 1883i came with one). The included 2GB is already overkill for your needs. The card already has a nice...

Most single-bay 5.25" adapters with tiny fans aren't worth it -- from first-hand experience, the same HD with the same workload stays cooler in a fanless open-frame adapter than a fancy closed-frame adapter with speed control, LCD, etc. Multi-bay 5.25" adapters usually have decent-sized fans...

Yay! :) Hopefully they do something about it. A poor review on Newegg or contacting them via Twitter may get their attention better than one-on-one contact. No, per year. However, renewal licenses go on sale for $5 once or twice a year at Newegg -- I stocked up on three of those and each year...

Given the boot issues you had and the fact that it's a P4-era vintage OEM consumer board, you'll most probably need to leave the tape there. Also, go into the HP BIOS first and see if there's any option to disable the splash screen and instead show you the standard boot (POST) info.

Great writeup, thanks. Would like to see the price a little lower. On a good day, $20-30 more gets you the Evo. PNYs new Cs2211 drives (announced January) are also priced pretty aggressively at Amazon - $129.99, I believe?

No, it doesn't make a difference where the card is flashed. Just make sure it works in your dc7600 first before you modify it: no need to connect any cables, verify that it fits and that Windows gives you the "New device/unknown device" prompts when it starts up. Don't install any drivers...

The "look Ma! no moving parts!" promise of reliability which only Intel SSDs had at the dawn of the consumer SSD era has finally trickled down to all SSDs made by flash manufacturers themselves. The only way for an SSD to die should be if you literally wear it out by writing too much. Too many...

Sadly, Intel seems to have gotten out of the consumer SATA SSD market. Amazon is currently selling the Crucial BX100 256GB (MLC) for $70 (DO NOT get the BX200 series).

Yes it will. It's unbranded though, try this 3ware branded one for cheaper:CBL-SFF8087OCF-SAS to Serial ATA Breakout Cable - 0.5M Reverse breakout is the one you found earlier and DO NOT want :) Sorry about the Molex confusion, didn't know availability was poor.

Not fixed in 2014 ... still not fixed in 2016. For a standalone AV, I highly recommend Eset's NOD32 Antivirus (NOT the "Smart Security"). Goes on sale at Newegg several times a year for ~$15. Non-intrusive, fast and fairly light on the system.

So it is, good catch! Here's the right Molex part numbers OP needs:

Yeah, hundreds of thousands of small files would explain why the drive came so close to it's P/E cycle limit while being well below the TBW limit.

They just relabel hard drives. The only HDD manufacturers left in the world are Seagate (and brand Samsung), WD (and brand HGST) and Toshiba. They also relabel generic RAM. I have used Axiom server RAM somewhere in the past. Nothing remarkable.

Yeah, you're good -- those numbers are perfect: 4k cluster size, partitions aligned at 4k boundaries. Why would BitDefender be writing so much? Anyway, if you are just out of the 3-year warranty (3.5 years, you said?), contact Crucial and tell them that their drive is worn out after only 25TB...

They're great too if you're in CA and they have what you want (Amazon, Newegg, Frys, MC = sales tax).

Don't know dude, that's weird! The only thing I can think of is that SATA has a 3.3v line in addition to 5V and 12V, but never heard of a drive using it. If EVGA has different electrical connections for connectors which are physically keyed the same, big NONO, shame on them. I was considering a...

Pick a model/series: Storage

No need to mess with hidden files. Macrium Reflect should handle the clone easily. Clone, unplug old drive, plug in new drive. Windows should come up normally, it MAY require you to re-authenticate with Microsoft servers, but usually an HDD change isn't enough to trigger it. If something...

I found the same thing yesterday and it really seems the way to go - truly OS/BIOS-independent HW encryption. The only caveat is the PBA requires you to disable secure boot (which shouldn't be a problem for most of us "enthusiasts" ;))