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areca ARC-1680IX-24 PCIe x8 SAS RAID Card - Retail
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I have migrated my raid from one of the ARC-1220 cards, just plug and play. I was originally running 8x300GB drives.
Easy to use once you know what the terms mean.
Cons: Documentation is a little weak; hard to find exactly which memory will work (mine originally came with 512mb).
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Last Comment Incorrect - Does Support Boot
Reviewed By: Speed on 1/4/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
Pros: To correct the last comment: This controller DOES support booting. You have to update to the latest firmware (keep in mind there are multiple versions of 1.45....80915 is the latest). I have booted off multiple drives and multiple array types. Each firmware update improves behavior and performance and makes more drives compatible.
Cons: SATA STR is lower than what many people will expect due to SAS overhead.
Other Thoughts: Strength of this controller is in random access patterns and improved parity calculation efficiency.
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Doesn't Support Booting with Vista64
Reviewed By: on 12/16/2008
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
Pros: Very fast. Tons of features. This is almost like installing a SAN - it can do anything you are likely to want to do. I installed the battery backed cache option plus the 2gb memory upgrade to get the best performance. I have it installed in a skulltrail system in one of the 16x slots on the motherboard.
Cons: After much frustration, I have finally figured out that this card (and perhaps other Areca cards) cannot support boot devices with Vista64. It seems even though they supply Vista64 drivers, they don't actually support booting. Apparently they USED to, but when service pack 1 of Vista64 came out, it broke the drivers. Since Areca still doesn't have this fixed, I would make sure you understand you will not be able to boot from drives attached to this controller if you are using Vista64.
Other Thoughts: I used a pair of Velociraptors setup as Raid1 on build in Intel raid controller on my Skulltrail system. They I used this controller for 3 separate arrays of 14 1TB Seagate es2 drives. Array 1 is a pair in Raid 1, and Arrays 2 and 3 are both Raid 5 using 6 drives each (5gb usable space on each array). I also have a hot spare configured which the controller can use.
Works like a charm if you don't need it to boot with Vista64.
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Model
Brand
areca
Model
ARC-1680IX-24
Specifications
Type
SAS
External Ports
1xSFF-8088
Internal Connectors
6xSFF-8087
Interface
PCIe x8
Transfer Rate
Up to 3Gb/s per port
Cache Memory
One DDR2-533 Socket with Default 512MB, Upgrade to 4GB
RAID
RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
Operating Systems Supported
Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista Linux FreeBSD Novell Netware 6.5 Solaris 10 x86/x86_64 SCO Unixware 7.x.x Mac OS X 10.x (EFI BIOS Support)
Reviewed By: on 2/18/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: more than 1 year
