Product Reviewsareca ARC-1222 PCIe x8 SATA / SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) RAID Card
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 Rating: Review Date: 07/31/13 |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/30/13 |
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When I opened the ARC-1222, I was surprised to see an RJ-45 port on the back, which wasn't readily made apparent in the item specs. You can connect it to ethernet for manageability - it has a web-based configuration UI, SNMP and e-mail assistance. I've observed RAID troubles make the host unusable on a lot of other systems, so becoming capable to diagnose storage difficulties independently is a great function!The SFF-8087 connectors are great for cable management. If you have an enclosure that supports SGPIO, I believe it's worth it to get an ARC-1222 as an alternative of the ARC-1220, even if you're only going to use SATA, just for that feature.Performs wonderful in RAID-six mode. Supports scanning for failures and parity mismatches and fixing them automatically in the background, just like you'd hope a excellent RAID controller would.Supports arrays larger than 2TB just fine (I'm using it with a 9TB array). Cache RAM is not expandable.Optional cache battery backup module (not incorporated) needs the use of an added slot in back of case (though it will need not plug into motherboard).Doesn't seem to light up enclosure's failure light via SGPIO when a drive is declared failed (though I haven't actually attempted to tackle this 1 but).Telnet support by way of eithernet utilizes a bizarre terminal emulation that doesn't look to be VT-100 compatible - which matters because it appears to be a menu-driven (UNIX curses-like) technique. I want to give it five stars, but a handful of imperfections, like the weird terminal emulation in telnet and the lack of an index in the enclosed printed manual hold me back. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/01/13 |
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Straightforward setup - had a RAID six going with 4 x 1TB drives in about 5 minutes (the actual formatting took a number of hours). Compatable with VMWare enabling you to use economical SATA drives! The drivers for VMWare are not built in and you have to apply them soon after setting up the VMWare box. This is hardly the fault of Areca, nevertheless, and was just con for my particular predicament. I'm operating 2 of these cards in ASUS rack server platforms (RS520-E6/RS8). Physical set up and setup of the RAID was speedy and straightforward. It did take some investigation to figure out how to install the drivers in VMWare ESXi four. U1 (mostly a learning curve with the VMWare remote command line interface). It's certainly wonderful to be in a position to use SATA drives in a RAID for a server, minimizing our costs considerably. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/30/13 |
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Had been intending to use my motherboard's integrated RAID controller for a residence server, but soon after possessing a DOA drive I then realized with the integrated RAID there was no way to generate alerts for my headless residence server. (No monitor, keyboard, or mouse.) Value, but that's correct of all hardware RAID cards. Areca is not almost as high-priced as some. Some of the documentation is a bit vague, but it isn't as well hard to figure out how to configure this card. First time using hardware RAID. I like the net interface for configuration. Haven't gone through all the functions but, but this does have an alarm for difficulty drives and is also supposed to be in a position to send e-mail notifications. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/01/13 |
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Fairly uncomplicated setup by means of the BIOS screens. Also pretty simple setup by way of the Internet interface. Very easily changed in between RAID5, RAID10, and RAID50 for testing. Onboard SATA software RAID5 186MB/sec, This card RAID5 471MB/sec. That's 2.5X quicker! Price tag is a little high for most people. Fortunately I was building a NAS/SAN answer for operate and had approval to use this. I'd use it at residence, but I'm quite confident the "budget committee" wouldn't approve. 2.93GHz i3, H55 board, 2GB RAM, and 6x 2TB 7200RPM SATA drives.I utilised FreeBSD 7.3 with UFS and diskinfo -t /dev/device for results. |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/10/12 |
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Best value 8x drive raid card. Runs ESXi (see other thoughts). Has personal NIC, and really extensive internet interface. None. Had to modify the driver supplied by Areca to function with ESXi version four.1. Hopefully, they update the driver to install appropriately for this version. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/16/12 |
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-Effortless to install and configure.-Constructed in Ethernet enables for simple access directly to the RAID. Plenty of configuration possibilities.-Blazing speed: I am operating eight 2TB Samsung F4's in RAID six, the transfer speeds totally saturate the Gigabit network in my house.-Works wonderfully with the new "Advanced Formatting" A.K.A. 4kb sectors. In truth, there is an option especially for this when making the RAID array. -Getting a 3rd party SMTP set-up for e-mail alerts is a pain. It only supports standard authentication, while several 3rd celebration SMTP servers want to use SSL. It also calls for an IP, not positive why it can't perform a quick DNS lookup. (Note: If you have an in-residence SMTP server, this is no situation) -People today preserve complaining about the web interface. It's not the most lovely thing in the globe, but it has all the options you will need, and it's not difficult to navigate. After all, it's merely a swift configuration tool, not a complete blown site to be noticed by thousands of individuals. Don't let this deter you from shopping for the card.-This was my first time dealing with a devoted RAID Controller, I was a bit nervous about how it would play with my BIOS but was pleasantly surprised at just how easy to use it was. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/20/12 |
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Really like this issue. Zero problems and now I have a great linux server/nas. It's quite rapid and fairly significantly maxes out my 1000Mb/s network line None |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/17/12 |
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This card is wonderful:- It's rapidly- It's got a fairly decent web interface that lets you set every little thing up without ever obtaining touch the server console- The cables are good, even though the clips leave a small bit to be desired I hate cards that have little tiny fans on them. They usually get dust in them and make noise and typically don't operate effectively. I replaced the fan with a huge heatsink that is produced by zalman which newegg didn't carry. This card isn't affordable, but it performs very properly. I would have liked to have bumped up to the bigger 12 port model with 4gb of cache, but that was a bit rich for my property use. I'm pleased with this and the SuperMicro situation I got that has eight drive bays! |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/07/12 |
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I have this card operating just fine with RAID 60. Just bear in mind you need to have LOTS of physical drives to run a RAID 60 configuration, and as an additional reviewer pointed out, these characteristics aren't offered under the speedy set menu. All of this is stated obviously in the manual, which even though occasionally had a grammatical error, I found to be incredibly descriptive and informative about the differences in between the unique RAID configurations. The web interface could use some CSS or some thing. Man, it's arcane searching. BUT it performs and does every thing it's supposed to, and loads really quick. It just looks kinda shoddy. I also bought the battery (~贶 䔽) so that the write cache is preserved if the power goes out.LOUD BEEPS at startup. I consider you can turn them off but I kinda like them. They're just seriously loud.I own two of these cards and place them in two unique Windows Server 2003 boxes. 8x1 TB drives on every card. That's all it will take. It'd be good if it would accept far more drives, but there are other models that do for the funds. 8 is all I necessary, this is what I purchased. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/11/12 |
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Rapidly, full featured, does what it is supposed to.Nice lan-accessible internet interface.PCIe x8 means even SSDs won't be bottlenecked. Pricey backup battery not includedMediocre assistance internet site and poorly documented drivers This card has been amazing, I have no regrets about buying it. 2x 80GB drives for OS RAID 1 array, 4x 320GB drives for RAID 5 Data volume. 1x 2TB drive for scheduled backups of the information. 1x 320GB drive hot spare.The only genuine situation I had was that after installing the WHQL Windows 2003 driver from the CD, both the internet interface and the CLI would randomly freeze for 1 - five minutes. Then they would kick back in and function rapid for an small bit, then freeze. It was solved by upgrading to a newer non-WHQL driver located on their support FTP web page. I could not uncover any documentation of what the driver revisions changed/fixed. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/25/12 |
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making use of laptop HDD's (samsung MP4's) for an 8 disk Ɨ active + 1 hot spare) yields really fantastic results (around 500MB/sec reads and 450MB/sec writes).Actually woke up CS5 vs my old RAID setup Ɣx 80 GB Fujitsu 2.5" 7200RPM 8MB cache on the ICH10R which was hitting 240 MB/sec read롌MB/sec write (Fujitsu's are from possibly 2006). a bit pricey; cables seem a bit, um, affordable. i ended up covering them with automotive wire looming. wouldn't hesitate to buy yet another. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/24/12 |
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* Functions with inexpensive SATA2 drives* Includes SATA->SAS cables (they're long and had no problems reaching from the front of the rack server to the back exactly where the card was)* Performs with ESXi 4.1 (you have to install some drivers from VMWare) * Fairly costly compared to 3Ware and other brands (in my case these brands aren't supported for VMWare so I had no choice)* Have had to clean the fan a couple times - dust had accumulated and it began creating noise* Not PCI-e two. (the areca two. equivalent is 贶 more)* NewEgg has this card has limited return policy now - perhaps it's getting discontinued? Have two of these cards bought from NewEgg Ɩ and 7):Server 1, in production for 6 months-1 x ASUS RS500-E6/PS4 1U Barebone Server8 x Kingston 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 ECC Registered Server Memory2 x Intel Xeon E5520 Nehalem two.26GHz LGA 1366 80W Quad-Core Server Processorfour x HITACHI 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s three.5" Internal Hard Drive1 x areca ARC-1222 x8 SATA / SAS RAID CardServer 2, in production for five monthsɅ x ASUS RS520-E6/RS8 2U Barebone Server8 x Kingston 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 ECC Registered Server Memory8 x HITACHI 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Tough Drive1 x areca ARC-1222 x8 SATA / SAS RAID CardBoth servers are running VMWare ESXi 4.1. I opted to install ESXi on a USB stick considering that it wouldn't recognize the RAID system out of the box. I followed directions on VMWare's site for installing the areca help drivers afterward and have the RAID 6 as the VM volume. Performs wonderful and incredibly solid! |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/01/11 |
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Does ǗቦǛǜ nicely. ITEM DOESNT DO 30ኘ, even though NewEgg says it does, and the box it comes in does, and the Areca webpage says it does. ITS PLANNED in a future release sometime in the next year. NewEgg doesn't want to do anything "because we get our specs from the manufacture" and Areca tells me to get in touch with my "retailer for a refund", as technical difficulties have forced them to pull it from this card, then they recommended I get a new card (more high-priced) and maintain this 1 for a individual server with much less raid requirements. GIVE ME A BREAK. Look elsewhere, maybe a corporation that is in America and stands behind their item. How lengthy I've owned the card shouldn't matter. NewEgg should take the card back simply because it DOESN'T do what it says it will do. At the really least, they should adjust the description on it on the web so they don't burn other buyers. I'm starting to remember why I utilised to goto brick and mortar businesses, they stand behind what they sell for a small longer than 30 days and actually will attempt to make it correct. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/27/11 |
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This card was basic to set up and among my 15,000 rpm SAS drives in RAID 5 and this card ...my server is smoking fast!!! I wish this thing came with SAS cables...I had to shell out 35.00 for a cable I didn't buy a SAS card to run sata drives and I didn't want to use a back plane |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/21/11 |
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Has an ethernet port for remote diagnostic and management. Just assign an IP and point your browser to it and you're golden. Fits in a 2U case (and includes backplane). Supports just about each RAID level recognized to mankind. 256mb onboard cache. Live RAID reconfiguration (Expand/Modify). Alternative for Hot Spare drives and pass-by means of drives. Optional battery module to keep the cache hot in the event of a serious power failure. This is a truly skilled RAID card. Doesn't include SAS 8087 to SAS 8484 for server backplane hookup. Had to buy those separate. Modest con. I have this set up to completely replace the awful on-board RAID of a Tyan server. No matter whether it's the drivers under Server 2003 R2 x64 or a fault of hardware, transferring huge amounts of files 鸴mb+) at when to our current RAID 5 array locks the personal computer up. I bought three new 146Gb Cheetahs for a second RAID five array as nicely. Now that every thing is moved to this controller, no additional crashing and I couldn't be happier with this fileserver. Current configuration: OS on 250Gb RAID1, Company Files on 500Gb RAID5, Company Databases on 280Gb RAID 5. All 8 slots therefore filled in a 2U Tyan fileserver. |
Handle, footprint, tolerance of non-RAID drives for arrays, straightforward on the fly construct/add, integrated multi-kind alarming, throughput Speed, recovery/rebuild speed cost, requires eight lanes, could be four of PCIE v2. (for eight port version) exceeds the onboard controller by considerably more than I expected was attainable. I wish I'd purchased the 12 port so I could dis-continue use of the onboard altogether.