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- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years
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Fast, Easy to use
- Pros: Works great in my PC. New firmware allows it to boot in my new MacPro as well. Very fast with just half the disks. Currently using WD5000AAKS.
- Cons: Ethernet seems to disconnect after extended periods.
- Other Thoughts: Somewhat hard to understand foreign tech support. BIOS setup doesn't work in my new Asus Maximus Formula, have to use web based admin. Takes a long time to rebuild disks (over a day) but I have nothing to compare this to.
Awesome raid controller
- Pros: Fast. Fast. Fast. This card is Hella fast.
- Cons: Pretty expensive (but not excessively so when comparing other hardware raid5/6 controllers which support 12 drives)
Hot! I have a little fan which uses one of my mobo sockets to help keep it cool. Temps went from 60 C to 40C.
- Other Thoughts: This raid controller is aweomse! It works great in linux, mac OS and windows XP. I mainly use it on linux with 12x1TB seagate drives in raid5 for 11 TB of usable disk space. I get about 820 MB/sec sustained read speeds and about 650 MB/sec sustained writes. I upgraded the cache to 2 GB since it was only $50 to buy it (which I did from new egg). When running windows I ran hdtach on it and you can see my results here:box.houkouonchi.net/hdtach.png . Areca is definitely the best you can get as far as performance is concerned. Also you can see voltages and individual drives temps via web-interface/telnet.
Great controller
- Pros: Works like a charm. It's FAST. Works great with WD5001ABYS drives and Icy Dock rack. I bought on newegg crucial memory for it (N82E16820148022). Worked well. I had it set up on Asus P5E - no problems here (had to update BIOS though). Set up raid 6 (5xWD5001ABYS). Insanely fast read. It was dropping drives first but it was PSU fault. I wasted 2 days to figure it out. Upgraded to 750W (from 550W) and all problems disappeared.
- Cons: None but the price.
| Model |
| Brand |
areca |
| Model |
ARC-1231ML-KIT |
| Specifications |
| Type |
SATA II |
| Internal Connectors |
3 x Min SAS 4i (SFF-8087) |
| Interface |
PCI-Express x8 |
| Cache Memory |
One DDR2 DIMM (Default 256MB/ Upgrade to 2GB) |
| RAID |
RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 (if RAID 6 engine supported) and JBOD |
| Operating Systems Supported |
Windows 2000/XP (Scsiport Driver)
Windows Server 2003 (Scsiport Driver and Storport Driver)
Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, TurboLinux, CentOS, etc.)
FreeBSD
Novell Netware 6.5
Solaris 10 x86/x86_64
SCO UnixWare 7.x.x
Mac OS X (no_bootable) |
| Features |
| Features |
Intel 800MHz 81341 I/O processor
One DIMM socket with default 256MB of DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection, Upgrade to 2GB. An ECC or non-ECC SDRAM module using X8 or X16 chip organization
Write-through or write-back cache support
Support up to 12 SATA II drives
Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance
BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support
Intel RAID 6 Engine to support extreme performance RAID 6
NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
Redundant flash image for adapter availability
RAID Features:
RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 (if RAID 6 engine supported) and JBOD
Multiple RAID selection
Array roaming
Online RAID level/stripe size migration
Online RAID capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
Online Volume set growth
Instant availability and background initialization
Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuild
Greater than 2TB per volume set
Support S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin-up capable drives
Support spin down drives when not in use to extend service life (MAID)
Support NTP protocol to synchronize RAID controller clock over on-board Ethernet port
Monitors/Indicators:
System status indication through HDD activity/fault connector, LCD Connector and alarm buzzer
SMTP support email notification
SNMP support for remote notification
I2C Enclosure management ready
Server chassis features the 36-ckt Mini-SAS connector (SFF-8087) on its SAS backplanes
RAID Management:
Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
In-Band Manager
Hot key boot-up McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS
API library for customer to write its monitor utility
Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
Browser-based management utility via ArcHttp Proxy Server
Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
Out-of-Band Manager |
| Packaging |
| Package Contents |
ARC-1231ML-KIT
User Manual
Driver Disk
3 x Cable |
| Manufacturer Warranty |
| Parts |
3 years limited |
| Labor |
3 years limited |
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Reviewed By: Charlie on 5/7/2008
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
