terayon1515
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- Mar 23, 2006
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Hey Guys,
I'm looking to upgrade, and given the prices of HDD's I have saved up enough to pick a decent RAID HBA. A softRAID5 of six 2TB WD Green drives is on what appears to be a failing motherboard controller, as different drives are erroring and I have been re-rebuilding over half a dozen times now.
I am looking at the Areca 1882IX-12 - I have a 4020 case that is half empty ATM due to a failed Dell PERC 5i (CPU failure). Hence the need to get a new controller pronto!
I need to give life back into the case - I was almost hitched on getting a Highpoint 4321 and a Chenbro SAS expander, but the total was $800 with an 8088 to 8088 cable. So why not get a brand new Areca on DDR3 with just enough internal ports to hold me over (for $900), and get an HP SAS expander later?
The system:
Asus P5K-E | 8GB DDR2 | PP&C 750W | 4x WD15EADS (in a cr@p Drobo ATM)
6x WD10EAVS in softRAID5
So, couple questions:
1) Anyone have any real-world comments on these newer cards?
2) How are their drive compatibility? (any chance of a WD20EARS drive working without TLER?)
3) Do they play friendly with the HP SAS Expanders?
Thanks so very much!
I'm looking to upgrade, and given the prices of HDD's I have saved up enough to pick a decent RAID HBA. A softRAID5 of six 2TB WD Green drives is on what appears to be a failing motherboard controller, as different drives are erroring and I have been re-rebuilding over half a dozen times now.
I am looking at the Areca 1882IX-12 - I have a 4020 case that is half empty ATM due to a failed Dell PERC 5i (CPU failure). Hence the need to get a new controller pronto!
I need to give life back into the case - I was almost hitched on getting a Highpoint 4321 and a Chenbro SAS expander, but the total was $800 with an 8088 to 8088 cable. So why not get a brand new Areca on DDR3 with just enough internal ports to hold me over (for $900), and get an HP SAS expander later?
The system:
Asus P5K-E | 8GB DDR2 | PP&C 750W | 4x WD15EADS (in a cr@p Drobo ATM)
6x WD10EAVS in softRAID5
So, couple questions:
1) Anyone have any real-world comments on these newer cards?
2) How are their drive compatibility? (any chance of a WD20EARS drive working without TLER?)
3) Do they play friendly with the HP SAS Expanders?
Thanks so very much!