Seagate LPs and Areca 1880i

[PhoenixC5]

I have a bunch of Seagate LP's running on my ICH10R right now and the write performance is just too awful. I have another array of Hitachi drives on my Areca 1880i. My question is, will the Seagate LP drives have issues running on the Areca?

I previously tried these LP's on an older 3Ware card and I got nothing but annoying time-outs. I'd love to just get an expander and have two separate arrays on my 1880i, but I don't want to bother yet if I will just end up with a bunch of time-outs.

Also, I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2.

Thanks!

 

[Jerkson]

From all the reading I have done you shouldn't use those LP's in RAID as the timeout issues are plentiful.

Also, if you were using them in raid on that ICH10 you shouldnt be expecting much
For a 5900rpm drive their performance is supposed to be quite good, partially due to their platter density.

 

[PhoenixC5]

Honestly...I was expecting blah performance, but 35-40mb/s is beyond blah and into awful.

Anyone out there tried the 2TB LP's on an 1880i?