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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...

10Gbase-T will be the option for most boards, but SFP+ is available now and will be in the future. I just bought a Supermicro FlexATX board with two SFP+ ports, although admittedly not a "consumer" boad, this was for the network router upgrade. I'm actually looking right now at an 4-year-old...

I chose an X99 motherboard with sufficient slots for this reason, but 5 years from now it will be nice to replace to a motherboard with native 10Gb SFP+.

I'm going to use these with Windows, fiber and transceiver. Where do you buy these cards for $40, or did you mean $140?

I would like to connect my PC RAID server to US-16-XG Ubiquiti 10Gb switch using SFP+. I would prefer only a single port, and would like it to be PICe3.0 X4, so as to not to unduly burden my expansion slot requirements. PCIe X8 just isn't needed for a single-port card on PCIe3.0. But if the best...

I haven't looked at the ARECA BIOS user interface, if that is what you mean by "DOS". I don't believe MS-DOS is involved with this at all. You have to update each file, not sure why you're having trouble.

I think you update each file individually, not select them all in the browse for file window in your web browser. On my 1882 it shows current versions of all firmware including the BIOS.

I did install a RAID backup battery per your suggestion. I may not go with a full UPS for the whole server and network for quite a while. I have had UPS' in the past, and have found them to be expensive, high-maintenance and failure prone. Electric power is reliable at my location so I find...

I have been in communication with Areca regarding the inability of the ARC-1882i-16 (and probably their newer 1883 and 1884 models) to recognize and (presumably) configure ERC/TLER/CCTL with the Western Digital DC HC530 14TB drives. Areca support seems to want me to prove that these drives...

The old array has been copied to the new array using Robocopy in Windows Powershell, a very convenient tool that preserves permissions and timestamps. Currently h2testw utility linked above is being run in the free space of the array to check for disk dropouts due to apparent incompatibility...

maxxmusterr, if by "go to an individual drive" you mean the web interface to the 1882ix-16, I don't see TLER/ERC/CCTL terminology shown. Error Recovery Control is shown as disabled for the new 14TB disk array. However, Error Recovery Control is also shown as disabled for the Hitachi 3TB array...

I can't read German, not sure that tool will do me much good. I have never had a backup battery on this RAID card. I used to have a UPS, but grew tired of failed batteries (which I could deal with) and failed electronics. I will get a new UPS for the server with the RAID array eventually. I...

The 4 X 14TB Western Digital drives in my last 4 slots of ARC-1882ix-16 are building a RAID5 array currently at 17% after 12 hours. 42GB usable storage compared to my 12 X 3TB Hitachi RAID6 at 30GB. This could take a few days. After testing and moving my data I'll pull the old 3TB drives, buy...

Already pulled the trigger on 14TB Western Digital DC HC530 "Hitachi" SATA drives. Couldn't let that extra storage escape me during my once-a-decade RAID hard drive migration. These are data center drives with rotational vibration sensors, motors on both ends of the spindles, and probably some...

Here's a link to the large, modern helium drives with an ARC-1882ix-16 thread. I'm going to buy a few WD DC HC530 14TB drives, which apparently are Hitachi Helioseal thanks to the merger. If you have any advice, please join the conversation. It may be relevant to quite a few of we Areca owners.

maxxmusterr, brouhaha if you're interested in the modern HDD vs. ARC-1882ix-16 saga I'm going to start with 4 of these Western Digital 14TB Ultrastar DC HC530 drives in RAID5 to check Error Recovery Control (ERC) and general compatibility with my ARC-1882ix-16 card. Just updated the FW and RAM...

WUH721414ALE6L4 looks like a hopefully-compatible successor to the 12TB HGST.

I see the June 2019 compatibility list now shows the Hitachi HUH721212ALE600 12TB as compatible. I posted in the owner's thread about my imminent upgrade.

It's time to finally make a move on a hard drive upgrade to my 1882ix-16. Yeah, it is no longer the newest card, but if I can find compatible drives I don't see a reason to upgrade the card, especially given the cost. I want to use 12TB Hitachi with 4K native sector drive base on excellent...

Thanks, just got a stick to try out as part of my 1882ix-16 RAID6 drive upgrade. Edit: I got a used 8GB stick of Ebay from a decomissioned server for $16. Exact ADATA part number you mention. My media server boots much faster now, and file transfers between the RAID array and a local SSD are...

I'm thinking of pulling the trigger on 4 each 14TB PMR drives, preferably with 4K sectors. Does ARC-1882ix-16 support the larger sectors?

Thanks for the clarification. There has been a lot of merger/acquisition activity in the hard drive space, rendering our experiences with particular brand names no longer accurate. Western Digital had a well-deserved reputation of lesser quality and lifespan, supported by extensive data from...

Good info, thanks. I am partial to Toshiba/Hitachi, and now there are 14TB non-shingled drives available. In a perfect world I would start my upgraded RAID array with these babies. But of course there is always the compatibility question, which seems to never be answered by the mfg's. Not...

I checked Areca's HCL, but it hasn't been updated for 6 months. It doesn't seem like there are too many drives listed, but we know the list isn't exhaustive. You would think any decent HDD would have this feature by now, but sometimes the command to enable it has changed and the RAID card...

I don't suppose anybody has tried the new Toshiba MG07ACA14TA 14 TB hard drives yet? Would live to start my new array with these, but as always, nobody can confirm they play nice with TLER and Areca 1882ix-16.

Does the ERC setting survive a reboot?