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areca ARC-1220 PCI-Express x8 SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card
54%
Excellent
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Very Good
9%
Average
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Below Average
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Poor
Rating: 8.47/10
Boris
Rating:

Review Date: 09/16/13
Comment:
Supplies up to eight drives setup with many RAID sets.Assistance for RAID five and 6 is fantastic, rapidly and trustworthy. Fantastic 2TB+ assistance. Can't actually be cooled by a passive cooler that was supplied, gets really got with no adding additional airflow that would blow on card.The cost is somewhat high for a IOP333 RAID controller when there's currently an IOP348 obtainable from Areca Would definitely advocate it... Didn't fail me even after.
Max
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Review Date: 09/09/13
Comment:
Extremely quick, extremely steady. Great RAID. Also had a fairly thorough manual. Apparently there is a issue operating this card with my motherboard and Precisely 2 gig ƒx1gig) of memory. The card BIOS wouldn't come up. Any other amount of memory was fine. Tech support wasn't that helpful. Found the memory answer on a googled forum from an individual else with the identical challenge.Software not the greatest, but it functions. Operating eight western digital 320 drives in RAID6. Running on an Intel SE7230NH1 mobo with three gig of RAM on Win2K3. Once my memory situation was resolved, this card has been amazing.
Bracha
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Review Date: 08/31/13
Comment:
Performs fantastic. Produced two separate raid sets out of eight 1 TB drives, 1 2 TB raid set (for editing/encoding), and 1 3 TB raid ten set (storage/distribution) for a total of five TB for my house video server. Pulled one particular drive every single out of the R10 mirrors to test the rebuild, worked like a charm. Time to initialize/rebuild. Working with such massive drives, it took almost 5 hours to initialize the 6 disk, 3 TB raid 10 set. Its to be expected, but retain in mind that if you're working with bigger raid volumes it will possibly take longer than you expect to setup. When I received the raid card, it was missing the sata cables it was advertised to come with. Not a huge deal considering that I had replacements laying around, but a minor annoyance. Areca's help from Tekram USA was fantastic, sending the missing cables inside about a week of notification.
Zion
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Review Date: 08/28/13
Comment:
Hardware primarily based RAID; was able to support uncompressed 1080i 60 HD playback seamlessly on only four drives; documentation is thorough and in-depth; Feature wealthy product; no problems; good performer Documentation is written for an individual with a high degree of encounter with these sort of solutions, not a lot of casual examples or "hand holding" (barely understood a lot of it myself, had to refer to Wikiedia a bit); Costly (this could only be relative to choices that seem to supply the similar functionality but are not really equivalent, which I think could be the case) I have been incredibly delighted with the product using just a 4x1TB RAID; Hope to develop the RAID as required; met all my expectations which have been high considerng the price; I could not afford to fool around so I got the item that I believed would perform finest and give m e the choice to add on later; the value was higher, about twice what I wanted to invest, but it seems to have been a worthwhile investment; quite satisfied so far; the startup "beep" is no massive deal (and I believe it can be shut off in the card's BIOS, just by no means bothered to do it);
Aleda
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Review Date: 08/22/13
Comment:
Incredibly quite fast"Just works" in Linux. No driver installation required.Nice long cablesBIOS user interface is crude but powerful. Gets extremely hot! Don't use the fanless heat sink unless you have a super-high airflow case.For this price, a single would anticipate locking SATA connectors.Management interface freezes intermittently, requiring reboot to fix. Runs generally even when management interface is frozen.Supplied software program is primitive and insecure. 4 digits is not a good password.Manual is far too verbose. Pertinent information could fit on a page or two. Verify out the most up-to-date smartmontools from the sourceforge web internet site and you can monitor the Smart drive info with no their application.
Primavera
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Review Date: 08/03/13
Comment:
Running 5 WD 250GB in raid5 and it operates excellent. Satisfied about the obtain. Easy to install, seems like a solid product. A lot happier with areca functionality than with 3ware. Making use of in my a8n-sli premium 2nd x16 slot. Most up-to-date bios on MB and card but when I reboot it does not detect the card. I have to ctrl-alt-delete a second time for the card to be detected. Not certain why it works the 2nd time around, but don't want to get yet another mobo. Discovering a match for this card appears difficult.
Mitch
Rating:

Review Date: 07/19/13
Comment:
Genuine uncomplicated to get going on if you have a rough idea of what you are performing. See other thoughts below for newbie support. The Sata connectors on the board don't utilize the metal latches that come on some cables these days. The cables still operate, you just don't get the full benefit of them. As a result the connections feel a littttle bit loose. Not a big deal, but worth noting. I don't know if any other cards are distinct. Crucial point: This is a True hardware raid. Not a fakeraid like some other decrease price controllers. It is totally compatible with linux and performs great. Fakeraids constructed into the motherboard or on an add-on card are NOT compatible with Linux kernel two.6 and later so make Sure you are obtaining the actual deal or you will not be pleased.I have SLES 10.2 and the SLES ten. driver on areca's web site worked great.Nforce five Series boards function properly with this card it seems. Had no troubles at all. I utilised the 2nd PCIe slot (GPU in 1st) and it recognized it right away for the duration of boot.
Waldron
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Review Date: 07/18/13
Comment:
-Superb study/write speeds in Raid six-Compatible with Seagate 1.5tb customer drives-Arrays can be dynamically extended with extra drives as want on-the-fly -Cost
Fiorenza
Rating:

Review Date: 07/17/13
Comment:
Little bit less costly than 3ware, and just as rapid and featured. I love these models since they have had no problems what-so-ever coming in and out of S3 stand-by (as long as your really hard drives have plenty of power accessible for the initial starts). I have a 1210 and a 1220 and adore them both. I use in raid , 1Ʈ, and 5 with no problems at all. Http access to this card is a small bit clunky, requiring a separate windows service and application to run as a proxy amongst the RAID card and the net browser. I crashed and rebuilt my raid Ư array about five instances in the course of the troubleshooting of inadequate power to my drives (my NAS server has 13 drives). It rebuilt flawlessly every time and I didn't loose a byte of my test data set. When I got the appropriate power provide this card worked perfectly. Separate SATA cables for each and every drive can be a tiny bit a lot more of a hassle than 3wares multilane connector, but I prefer the flexibility and becoming able to use any SATA cable for my drive arrays.
Topper
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Review Date: 07/11/13
Comment:
Just wanted to clarify - WHQL driver for Vista x64 is offered considering that 2007. Personally I have 1210, 1220 and 1231ML controllers running on Vista 64x, 2008 Server x64, 2003 Server 32-bit and Xp Pro 32-bit with no any challenges for over two years 24ǝ. HDDs - 640GB WD, Seagate 1.5TB, WD 1TB Black, 250GB Seagates... I will by no means run once again single challenging drive or use constructed-in RAID - the difference is among 2-4 occasions in study/write speed. Areca have to hire English speaking support which is offered 24ǝ if they plan to keep on the US market place. Buyers can't communicate with help engineers if they are readily available through e-mail only. I got problem with one particular mainboard and it took days to get answer from Areca's help - extended right after I sent the board back. 3ware, for instance, does offer phone assistance for their solutions. But I still favor Areca - quicker and operate with most mainboards. If you're searching to get the most from your high-finish method, don't acquire the fastest processor or 8GB RAM - get RAID controller and fast tough drives (at least 4) such as WD Black or Raptor. Recall, that even with quickest processor and 32GB RAM if your disk can\'t transfer your data quick enough for processing or create it on the disk the disk subsystem will be the bottleneck for complete computer method. If you will need even more quickly RAID, get 1231 - it is with far better processor and I got more than 700MB/sec study and create speed (single drive connected to the mainboard can give you some thing like 70-90MB/s, onboard RAID - up to 120MB/s).
Beauregard
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Review Date: 07/04/13
Comment:
Tested with ASUS P5WDG2 WS Pro mainboard with Windows XP Pro 64-bit, Windows XP Pro 32-bit and now it is running Windows 2003 R2 Regular with 4x1GB Corsair XMS2 6400, NVIDIA PCIe video, 6xWD 500GB RE2 RAID 6, 2x250GB Sea RAID 1 without any challenges. Extremely rapid - Brust study speed more than 600MB/sec. The only issue is with ASUS motherboard BIOS with Areca 1220 installed - the screen for Intel ICH7R RAID appears on the screen only for .five sec for the duration of POST as an alternative 3-four sec, but it's in all probability mobo's problem, not Areca. Tried to hook up standard case HDD light connector to RAID activity connector, but it is stady all the time and is off only when RAID is reading/writing. Will need Areca to offer set of LEDs with cables for this controller.
Sumi
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Review Date: 06/26/13
Comment:
None Has in no way worked right. Prior assessment complained of intermittent firmware and NVRAM failures. Now, it fails drive for no reason and on a energy cycle they come back for a couple of minutes and are then gone again. I just got this controller back from the factory on March 1, 2011. They say they replaced the principal SATA controller on it. It has worked fine for a couple of days but now it just drops drives offline right after a couple of minutes for no explanation. Tekram is a joke to perform with. They initially told me that it would be 3 weeks for the card to go back to the factory and return. It was four week prior to they shipped from Tekram and yet another week simply because they utilized slowest shipping. By no means buy any of this companies items. They just plain suck.Tekram RMA񕻥
Cal
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Review Date: 05/31/13
Comment:
I bought this for a SQL Server database Server. The specs are in "Other thoughts". This controller functioned flawlessly. I had to get updated drivers for the card just before it would perform properly but then it ran flawlessly. I have run it on XP Pro and Server 2003. It is Rapid! The constructed-in raid on my motherboard was so slow that it was useless, but this card performs great. Can\'t upgrade ram on the card. Windows 2003 Server ** Asus M2N32-SLI Delux ** AMD ADA3800IAA5CU Athlon X64 X2 3800 ** Ɣ) Patriot Extreme PEP21G6400LL 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 800 SDRAM ** ATI 100-437601 Radeon X1300PRO 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card ** Lian Lee Pc-201A Full tower case ** KINGWIN ABT-600MA1 ATX 12V Ver.two.2 600W Power Provide ** Areca ARC-1220 Raid Controller ** 8x Seagate 7200.ten 320gb drives in Raid6
Akiko
Rating:

Review Date: 05/31/13
Comment:
Speed, transfer price is amazing compared to my on board RAID5, but I anticipated that with the expense. Love the expansion ease it gives OK, I tried to replace the fan with the heatsink that was include things like(that is what it is for suitable, nothing was documented about it) So all it did was beep constantly even right after it booted. Gave up and place the fan back on and crushed the beeper with a a pair of pliers..worked fine ever due to the fact Operating on GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R LGA 775 with WHS
Fruma
Rating:

Review Date: 05/27/13
Comment:
RAID fiveRAID six RAID sixƯOnboard CPU and RAMWhat else do you want to know?Oh and its SMOKING Fast!!! NONE This is by far the greatest RAID card I have been in a position to use. I have ran RAID , 1, five and now six by means of other cards and using onboard RAID and this blows them all outa the laptop case!
Ianna
Rating:

Review Date: 05/21/13
Comment:
8 drives sata's, raid ten and 6.Seems compatible with evga 680i sli(in-use) mobo, 2x1gb corsair. 20 hours of work and no results however.Booting challenges, storport driver on XPsp2 doesnt appear to operate in spite of it's superior specs.Did this kill my HD or is this just the unreliable huge ide drives at their greatest.Pricey. Developing a workstation and necessary reputable solution for my storage. Tired of losing data and decided to go a much more hardcore.Did not to even play with motherboard RAID. Anyway, plugged this into 8x pcie, 1st boot it detected card but sat "waiting for card" indefinitely, continues to do so randomly. I did rapid raid5/volume construct on my 4x 500gb WD sata's. took 2ᚽᚼ to develop Ƒ.5tb).WinXPSP2, attempted to install storport, would not support. loaded scsiport driver effectively, detected raid. attempted to format volume, laptop locked, and then Areca beeped repeatedly. Adapter Bios said drive failed, one particular started clicking.Already a failed drive!? haha not using a hotswap program.. tried to discover which drive. 2 drives only showed in BIOS. Discovered which ones not displaying, attached a single to moboSATA and it loaded unformatted, format profitable. hmm effectively ill post once more when i get this operating.
Cais
Rating:

Review Date: 05/14/13
Comment:
Quickly, scalable, reliable. I've been operating with Raid six attached to a hyperv Server 2k8 VM for two years now and not a hiccup. Online expansion of the array is quite straightforward. The interface is a tiny wonky, but that's forgivable with the low value of this card. Comparable cards price at least twice as considerably when I purchased this card in 2008. If you want a ton of redundant storage for residence or modest organization this card is worth a look.
Montsho
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Review Date: 04/22/13
Comment:
C'mon guys, how about a small data on what you are running? CPU, motherboard, OS, etc. Quite useless critiques without that stuff. C'mon guys, how about a small information on what you are operating? CPU, motherboard, OS, and so forth. Fairly useless critiques without having that stuff. C'mon guys, how about a small information on what you are running? CPU, motherboard, OS, and so forth. Quite useless testimonials with out that stuff.
Ulla
Rating:

Review Date: 04/09/13
Comment:
*Quick boot/raid detection (ӱ sec w/ 8 2TB drives)*Full function set of RAID/disk management features*Fine granularity of settingsƬ Included SATA cables are good & lengthy, and have metal clips on one end to stay properly fastened to the drives.*Windows 2008 64-bit drivers integrated & signed (couldn't say the very same for my motherboard, which doesn't even have drivers for 2008) *They don't mention the fanless heatsink in the documentation. I know I tried installing it on my old card, and it seemed to overheat with it on. As finest as I can inform, it's only meant for operation exactly where there are enough fans to cool it already. Even so, in such an atmosphere, what would the addition of one particular much more fan matter? I'd considerably prefer to either have a working passive heatsink, or none at all.*Along with that point, it would be good to have a larger slower spinning fan. Although most server environments wouldn't care about noise, this is a residence server, and I'd prefer that it was as quiet as possible.*Ear piercing beep on boot (though only after compared to the four on just about every boot for my old card).*Web Raid management UI is nevertheless fairly behind the occasions. It seems awkward to use a internet-based UI when you're just accessing it on the host machine.*Price*SATA Cables would be nicer (at least in my system) if they had L bends on both ends rather of just on the card side. This card is a big improvement over the previous card I purchased ӯ years ago (ARC-1230). Not confident if it's a Firmware update or just a new card architecture now, but the old card utilised to not be able to boot devoid of a fresh begin (no resetting), and sometimes just fail to boot (heralded by even far more beeps). The worst of it all was that it would lag out when copying huge amounts of small files, and it would take out the network connection to boot. Not the greatest thing for the headless server it was operating in. It constantly essential a technique reboot to repair it (usually using the energy button).As far as I can inform, this new card exhibits none of these prior difficulties :-). Tech support also appears a lot superior, at least in terms of documentation available on the web.
Anson
Rating:

Review Date: 04/03/13
Comment:
Card has blazing quickly throughput (much superior than the Promise SuperTrak EX8350 I had in the machine previously). Simple to install and setup. I paired the card with 6 WD4000YR drives and the Norco DS-600s RAID chasis. None (see note under) If you are placing this card in a motherboard with a PCIe x16 slot, make sure the motherboard is equipped to manage a non-graphics card in an x16 slot. The original motherboard I attempted this card with (Intel D945GNTL) will not accept this card in the x16 PCIe slot bue to a legacy PCI bus problem. Quite a few MB producers have addressed this concern with BIOS upgrades (Intel is not one particular of them). I Extremely recommend checking Areca's difficult ware compatibility list (last updated on 01ባቢ at the time of this overview) just before acquiring this card an/or a motherboard to pair with it.
Ivy
Rating:

Review Date: 03/28/13
Comment:
Cost, latching cables, internet administration, no need to load drivers (Linux), ease of use for the cost, none Very strong card. Works like the manual says. The net primarily based admin is a big plus. I'm operating this on a Fedora ten box and actually required to do nothing at all in the OS. I produced the array in the BIOS, installed Fedora on a seperate drive, then mounted the raid volume immediately after the set up completed. the smaller webserver incorporated lets me keep tabs on items like drive temps remotely and helps me maintain the box headless.Reliability sensible, I've had no problems. I tested it's "online capacity expansion" capability which worked flawlessly going from a 4 disk RAID-five to a 5 disk array. It's moved literally terrabytes of data due to the fact I installed it. No errors.Operates incredibly nicely as a media server serving full DVD amd BluRay to my HTPC over cat-five.Its in an Asus P5BV-M server board I bought here at Newegg.The manual is super detailed. I've emailed their tech support a couple of inquiries and they responded within a day both instances.At the moment it has six TB stored on it on a single xfs partition.
Feivel
Rating:

Review Date: 03/09/13
Comment:
so far this is a quickly card, and does every little thing I want, but I use to to control my storage array. The set up is a breeze. for some explanation they give you an additional heat sink with this card. the one that come on my card had a fan, so i believed I would attempt the heatsink without having the fan becasue smaller fans whine. Anyway, i tripped the thermal alarm in below a minute, so i wouldn't mess with the other heatsink. After I went back to the original it runs like a dream
Ishana
Rating:

Review Date: 02/23/13
Comment:
Rapidly, capable and trusted. this unit has been a workhorse for RAID6 and raid 1Ʈ arrays for the last two years. I use it with WinXP SP3 and have had no troubles with it as such. I did use it for the initially six months on a Vista64 box but switched back to XP due to dissatisfaction w/Vista64. I run eight 750GB drives, 4 in RAID 6 for video/audio streamers by means of VLC and 4 in RAID 1Ʈ for XP and archives. The drives scream, they are extremely, incredibly rapidly. They don't have the access speed of a raptor but they suit my demands nicely. Only cons are Areca's lack of Engrish speaking buyer help and their lack of Vista authorized drivers. Therefore, if operating Vista, you have to hit F8 on every single boot up and pick the choice for ignoring driver certs. Hence, the four-star rating as opposed to five. I create this evaluation now merely since I am out of drive space and looking for a controller to jam in to a Supermicro 15 bay 3RU box for serving video to my HTPC. I most likely will not go with Areca this time about basically mainly because of the Vista problems and their unwillingness to resolve the lack of a certified driver.
Kamin
Rating:

Review Date: 02/23/13
Comment:
Great solution, super rapidly, really straightforward to realize and set up.Finest RAID five card I've ever utilized. None actually, I guess slightly high-priced, but you get what you pay for.
Lavanya
Rating:

Review Date: 02/04/13
Comment:
Cards fits in a 2U server. All brackets and cables are integrated. Great printed manual but it's out of date as newer OS's are not included. None. I had to upgrade to the newest firmware to set up Windows 2008 on a RAID controlled by this card. That and the latest storport driver produced the install go smoothly.
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Product Features

Product Specifications

Model
Brandareca
ModelARC-1220
Specifications
TypeSATA II
Internal ConnectorsMulti-layer SATA connector
InterfacePCI-Express x8
Cache Memory256MB on-board DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection
RAIDRAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 (if RAID 6 engine supported) and JBOD
Operating Systems SupportedWindows 2000/XP (Scsiport Driver) Windows Server 2003 (Scsiport Driver and Storport Driver) Redhat Linux and SuSE Linux FreeBSD Solaris 10x86 UnixWare 7.1.x Netware 6.5
Windows VistaWorks with Windows Vista
Features
FeaturesIntelR IOP333 I/O processorWrite-through or write-back cache supportSupport up to 8 SATA II drivesMulti-adapter support for large storage requirementsBIOS boot support for greater fault toleranceBIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification) supportIntel RAID 6 Engine to support extreme performance RAID 6NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log Redundant flash image for adapter availabilityMultiple RAID selectionOnline Array roamingOnline RAID level/stripe size migrationOnline RAID capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneouslyInstant availability and background initializationAutomatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuildingGreater than 2TB per volume setSupport S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin-up capable drives
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts3 years limited
Labor3 years limited

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