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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years
Pros: Hardware Raid6, 2GB cache (a MUST), great interface, and very fast
Cons: I haven't experienced the "failed drive on reID" like the other reviewer, but I've only played with it a little bit. It allows hotswap without issue and doesn't even need to repool the existing drives.
Other Thoughts: I've got eight 1.5 TB seagate 7200.11 drives in raid6. Very fast and was easy to set up.
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Reliable
Reviewed By: EricMacPro on 1/25/2009
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: more than 1 year
Pros: Extremely fast and reliable in real world applications.
Bootable in Mac Pro with OS X 10.5 from a RAID set (must flash MacPro_EFI bios on the Areca card)
2GB Cache is pretty amazing. I had 265 at first, I upgraded to 1GB and noticed a tremendous difference. Now I have 2GB and it's pretty snappy in After Effects. I can only say good things about the performance.
Cons: Occasionally if I unplug some drives and switch the ID, when I reconnect them a drive shows up as "failed". However the drive is fine - I rebuild the RAID 6 and move on. This only happens occasionally and only when I disconnect and reconnect drives.
Also, with a Mac Pro specifically I can boot from a RAID set, however I cannot seem to boot from a Pass Through drive (single drive on the card). Their Tech support says it should – I'll figure it out someday maybe. It will not boot Windows via Boot Camp, however this does not affect me.
A Mac Pro will only support 1 Areca card. Boo-hoo.
Other Thoughts: Areca is a bit expensive for the average joe, but a must for any serious pro apps user.
I can't wait til the SSD prices drop – I've got a few empty ports on this. I think pair of 200MB/s SLC SSDs in RAID 0 would make an exceptional scratch drive. But thats still sci-fi futuristic for my budget and work has been slow because of the stupid economy...
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Extremely Fast Controller
Reviewed By: Wifi on 12/3/2008
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: I have 4 of these in different servers and all of them have 16 drive Raid-6 using Seagate 1.5TB drives. The arrays are extremely fast and have been running without any issues for 2 months now.
Cons: None
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Model
Brand
areca
Model
ARC-1261ML-2G
Specifications
Type
SATA II
External Ports
Ethernet
Internal Connectors
4 x Min SAS 4i
Interface
PCI-Express X8
Cache Memory
2GB
RAID
RAID 0/1/1E/3/5/6 JBOD
Operating Systems Supported
Windows 2000/XP (Scsiport Driver)/Vista Windows Server 2003/2008 (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 10.4.x/10.5.x (EFI BIOS support)
Reviewed By: Tom on 2/17/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
