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Areca 1680 IX 16 question

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Hi everyone.

I have 2 Areca 1680 IX 16 in my system. Last year one of the Areca's died and it got replaced via RMA in the shop where I bought it. I got the new card (had a different serial number)
I plugged in the 4 breakout cables and my raid worked just like that, happy me :)

I assume i got a refurbished card, not that i really mind but now it died again :( ...
It still shows up when i boot, it shows the raid but when i enter the bios it goes blank screen and PC freezes.
When I let it boot all the way into windows everything is fine until i doubleclick on the driveletter of this raid, PC freezes.

These symptoms are identical to when it died the first time.

To add to my pain, the shop where I bought it went bankrupt and made a restart, so technically its a new company and they forfeit all warranty on their sold products.

So now I have 2 options.
RMA directly to Areca in Taiwan (I live in Belgium) and I should have 36 months of warranty but this is on the original card, I;m afraid I have no warranty on my replaced card. (original card is from April 2011). I will give it a go anyway.

So there is option 2 to buy a new card and i would like as little hassle as possible.
If i would buy a newer 1880 Series card (probably the 24 port) will it recognize my raidset that was defined on the 1680 ? and just show all my data in windows ?
It's really hard to find any conclusive info regarding this.

Tnx for reading :)
 
Can't answer any RMA related questions unfortunately or why you might be having issues like that, but newer cards will recognize the old array just like your replacement card did.

What you might try doing is disconnecting all the drives and seeing if you still have issues accessing the card's BIOS. If it comes up, try testing each channel to see if maybe that's the cause by plugging a drive to just the one you're testing and going through all 16 eventually...will be a bit time consuming, but not much to lose.
 
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