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Based on the Areca thread, did you decide to go back to windows and use hardware RAID?

So I assume the chassis would cost ~£2000 in the UK?

Thanks for the info. Ordered one, so should have it tomorrow.

Has anyone tried a Gigabyte GTX 970/980 G1 yet? Tempted to give it go - I believe it should fit with about 5mm to spare.

Thanks for posting that. I took a chance and ordered the 970 Strix (which turned up today) - so I think I'll be sending it back. Back to the drawing board. It's either the MSI 970 (which is also a pretty tight fit), MSI 980 (which should be 1mm shorter in height) or just stick with a...

Mine was parcelforce. Received the customs letter today, so should have it tomorrow.

If you get the chance can you measure the height. It's supposed to be 140mm (so 1mm less than the MSI which we know just about fits), but from the pictures I've seen of the Strix it looks taller than the MSI.

Anyone tried an MSI 980 yet or either of the Asus 970/980 cards?

Scan now have them in stock.

Got mine yesterday from Overclockers, so I imagine other places in the UK have stock now as well.

Thanks for the info. Is anyone using a TD03? I've seen someone with the TD02, but I'm guessing due to the rad thickness you'll only be able to use one fan on the 03. Also want to make sure its not too big for the hard drive bracket to fit.

Another one waiting for my V2 to arrive. This is what I'm currently planning. Need some CPU cooler and fan advice though. Asus Maximus VII Impact Intel Core i7-4790K 16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro RAM MSI GTX 770 Gaming Silverstone SST-SX600-G 2 x 5TB Toshiba HDD 2 x 240GB Samsung SSD The height...

So I purchased another BD drive and a new PSU. Swapped the new BD drive (Pioneer 208) in place of the BD207 and although the pc booted, the keyboard no longer worked. So then swapped the old PSU for the new one I purchased (Corsair 860i) and everything was working as expected. So it seems...

Spec is; Core i7 2600K Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z 16GB Corsair RAM Radeon HD 5850 GPU Zalman ZM850-HP PSU There's also a Samsung SSD running the OS and an LSI Raid controller running 3 x 2TB Hitachi drives. On top of that there were 5 optical drives attached. An LG BD/HDDVD drive, Pioneer...

Ok, this is really strange. One of my optical drives isn't reading some disks as it should, so I took it out of my system to RMA it today. Once I took it out of my system, it stopped booting into Windows. Most of the time it won't even get to the bios screen before the power cuts out. The...

Anyone able to offer assistance?

Hi, I installed the trial version of HDSentinel on my Windows 2012 server earlier and it appears to have borked one of my Raidsets/Volumes on my Areca 1882IX-12 (FW: V1.51). 11 out of 16 drives dropped from the card after the software was started with Device Removed/Device Failed/Time Out...

Has anyone seen any strange behavior with the ArcHTTP software and Windows 2012? My 1882 card keeps disappearing from ArcHTTP (i.e. it's no longer listed under SAS RAID controllers section) after about a day of uptime. The card still appears to be working fine and the drives don't disappear...

But not if you pay £200 from Misco or Insight, get a £100 cash back, so they only then cost you £100...

Sorry, but the cheap price has nothing to do with it. Misco and Insight are both approximately £200 before cashback. Servers Plus had them for £195 before cashback the other day. It's about where the servers are sourced from. It's clearly very easy for Outbound and HP to know if it's UK...

Just got a mail back from Outbound, Misco and Insight are fine, but not Transparent apparently.

I've emailed outbound to get them to confirm that they would give the cashback from an order from Transparent. Also checking with Misco and Insight as they are also pretty cheap.

Has it been confirmed that transparent are an elligible HP reseller for the £100 cashback?

Ignore me - you already posted who was selling it at that price.

Another one with some older SSD's still going strong. I have 2 of the Intel G2's in one server and 2 of the Vertex 2's in another. Both on 24/7 since I've had them.

I believe you have been very lucky then (and I've been unlucky) :D Drives just tend to die on me. I've lost drives in RAID5 and 6 arrays - a few I think were down to inadequate cooling in a 5 by 3 unit. A 4TB Hitachi died after about a day, so I put that down to shipping, rather than...

I was also interested in this info. So using badblocks is a good way of stress testing new drives. I tend to kill far too many hard drives, so anything to help weed out the ones likely to fail is good in may books.

What software did you use to do the surface scan? Thanks

Is there anywhere in ArcHTTP which shows how much space you have used in a volume/raid set?

Anyone know when the 7K4000 drives are likely to be released? It looked like they were going to be released soon, but then the floods hit and I haven't seen much since about them.

Out of interest, where did you get the 3TB Hitachi's from? Haven't seen them anywhere close to £85 (I assume they don't cost that now).

I also hear that a 4224 revision is planned for June. Not sure what the changes are, but it's supposed to have USB on the front.

Thanks for the info. Now just have to wait for the retailers to start listing them.

I thought he was also planning on doing a RAID5 comparison with the Areca card ;) Would there be any point purchasing the Cachecade upgrade for spinners for file serving activities (files, photos, movies, etc) or would it be a waste as the network throughput is still going to be a limitation...

On a similar vein (and not wishing to start another thread), if you were looking at RAID6 performance with traditional mechanical drives (i.e. Hitachi 5K3000 2TB’s in a Norco 4224) being used mainly as a file server/backups, etc, which of the following options would be best; Areca 1880ix...

In a similar vein, any eta on the Maximus IV Extreme-Z now that it has appeared on the Asus website?

Thanks for the link. Appears I might be on a wild goose chase, as it seems as if Norco are moving back to the old design with the USB box mounted on the front.

Does anyone know of a seller which has the new style 4224 case (flush buttons and no USB on the front) which ships to the UK? The 2 places that I know of, X-Case and an eBay seller called J8L both have the older style versions. Thanks

Are there issues with the MaxIOPS drives then? Was thinking of getting a pair to run in RAID0 and hadn't seen any issues with them yet across various forums.

Does anyone know if it's possible to use the ARC-1880-ix-16 and something like a 1-Port SFF-8087 to SFF-8088 Adapter, http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sas_cables_adapters/AD8788-1.asp to fully populate a 20 bay Norco? I know that most people use 1880i and a HP SAS expander, but buying the ix16 card...