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Anyone used the "classic" ARC-6120 battery backup unit for the 11xx/12xx/1680/1880 series with an 1882 card? The classic battery backup is now called ARC-6120BAT113 while the one for the 1882 series is called ARC-6120BAT121 They look the same and use the same cable part number. Wondering if...

Yep, the behavior was "undefined" across various devices, especially going past 4GB. The joy when larger cards worked out!! Seconded. The only flash memory card that has died AND led to regrets is an OG Lexar 256MB CF way back when. Shied away from them for years after that.

Clickbaity...no love for the Riva TNT/2 for those of us who couldn't afford Voodoos?

Transcend is/was a legit memory card mfr - had multiple full-size SD cards. PQI is an OEM like SamirD said, but they don't manufacture flash memory any more. With industrial cards, the speed is often not listed (though I doubt it matters for this application). You'd have to try to dig up an old...

Look for used brand-name (check pics for wear), or new-old-stock industrial cards (check pics and google mfr name). Shipped from the US, needless to say. This looks like a decent new-old-stock bet from a defunct manufacturer. And here's a used Transcend with best offer.

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I think it's the green that gives it a unique flair ;)

PM: dibs on the air and water coolers!

From the block diagram, it looks like other than the first two PCIe x8 slots, everything else (dual 10GBe, PCIE 3.0 x4 NVME, two PCIe 3.0 x4 slots, USB 3.1/3.2 controllers) comes off the PCH/Southbridge, which is limited by a 4Gbytes/sec DMI 3.0 link to the CPU. I assume you haven't seen any...

If you want bog-standard USB-A for casual file storage with decent sequential write speeds, I like the Microcenter 128GB 5-pack for $38: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BKZ3LQTL

Awesome! Anyone else have a set of four more 16GBs?

Will take it! Do you have any more 16GBs?

Still looking for a set of four 16GB DDR4 ECC RDIMMs, speed DDR4-2400 or better.

Any experiences with the Areca warranty for products purchased used--but still clearly within warranty (based on the FW/BIOS sticker date)?

Sorry to hear about that. We were talking about the 1680 series -- it would seem natural for a different model with a different expander chip to have a different flashing procedure. Doesn't the 1880 have it's own Expander CLI manual explaining the steps? It might have been better to ask here...

Hi Blue Fox, I've been away from the storage world for a few years and looking to upgrade. Could you give a few examples of the higher-performing Broadcom cards these days (or preferably, their OEM flashable versions)? I assume that the better performance comes from the ARM processors and/or...

I have an ARC-1883i with three RAID-5 arrays (4 drives per array, 4-8 TB each, via Intel RE2SV240 expander) AND an ARC-1880i (on another machine) with one directly connected 4-drive RAID-5 array (4TB). All arrays are 64-bit LBA with a 128k stripe size. I need to do some maintenance and have a...

Win 10 desktop versions don't have native iSCSI target creation support, but you can use free third-party software to do so, e.g. https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san-free

It's been a long time since I dealt with an -IX version, but IIRC the "awkward" portion is simply setting up the proper serial (COM port) connection to the expander command-line interface. After that, as with most command-line flashing procedures, it's not complicated but you do have to proceed...

Run chkdsk /r /f X: (whatever drive) and it will find and repair any bad clusters.

I don't know which revision of the Earthwatts you have. I had not-so-good experiences with the first Earthwatts EA430 a long time ago. Do you overclock your I5? With so many sudden drive failures, I'd suspect excessive heat and/or an unstable power supply. The power supply is among the...

How full are the drives? From the screenshot Ghost appears to be doing an intelligent copy and not a blind sector-by-sector copy. At an average read speed of say ~100 MB/sec, 4,000,000 MB will take 40,000 seconds, or slightly more than 11 hours. So yes, 12 hours is fair. Unless there was...

Hardware RAID6 operates on similar principles to unRAID (upto two disks can fail and the data is still OK) , but the controller takes care of everything, so there's no software necessary except to manage the controller. For up to 24 drives, the Supermicro 846s with SAS2 (=SATA3) backplane are...

Hey, sorry, I haven't had time to work on it much since the last update. I hope to spend some time on it over the next week or two.

Yes, sounds correct. Note that 64KB clusters are not supported by pre-XP Windows. Also note that Microsoft does not recommend the use of cluster sizes larger than 64KB. Even 32KB clusters are sufficient for at least up to 2TB. FAT32 allows a maximum of 2^28 clusters, with the caveat that a...

Alright! The SSD seems good, or I was going to have a twinge regret for recommending it to you in the previous thread! Googling for the error shows a few older Gigabyte mobos with these symptoms. Sometimes it was the drive, sometimes the mobo. I think we can safely say your motherboard is just...

Can you try connecting it to another port? Or maybe a USB enclosure?

THIS. With a five-year old Vertex 2, you're playing with fire unless you do frequent backups. Get a replacement, doesn't have to be an Evo. Crucial BX100 250GB is $70 on Amazon, last I checked.

The first few posts in this thread explain what drescherjm aptly summarized. Unless you start off with at least 10,000 identical drives, you should consider the MTBF as BS.

Or heat? Like prolonged 55+?

$350 MSRP for the internal drive. $300 for external. $550 for "duo" external.

Yes, Microsoft's diskspd tool : You don't want the standard sequential tests from this or any other tool because it would involve large unnecessary writes to the SSD and SSDs love sequential IO anyway. To stress the SSD controller, you do a lot of small, random, concurrent I/O. With diskspd...

Just for kicks, I spun up my c. 1995 Seagate 1GB HDD off an IDE add-in card and it works just fine. So yes, a spoonful of sugar + two spoonfuls of crap = crap ;)

If you're buying an LSI SAS2x36-based expander brand new in the US, you get the Intel RES2CV360, not Chenbro (same price). Yes, you'll need a dumb dual-port 8088-8087 adapter ($30), but you get Intel-quality with an Intel-warranty. As for dual-linking or which port to connect to the initiator...

To answer your direct questions first: Yes, definitely update the firmware. The latest is 1.52, dated 2015-11-20. The problem is there have been multiple prior versions also numbered 1.52 (my 1883i came with one). The included 2GB is already overkill for your needs. The card already has a nice...

Most single-bay 5.25" adapters with tiny fans aren't worth it -- from first-hand experience, the same HD with the same workload stays cooler in a fanless open-frame adapter than a fancy closed-frame adapter with speed control, LCD, etc. Multi-bay 5.25" adapters usually have decent-sized fans...

Yay! :) Hopefully they do something about it. A poor review on Newegg or contacting them via Twitter may get their attention better than one-on-one contact. No, per year. However, renewal licenses go on sale for $5 once or twice a year at Newegg -- I stocked up on three of those and each year...

Given the boot issues you had and the fact that it's a P4-era vintage OEM consumer board, you'll most probably need to leave the tape there. Also, go into the HP BIOS first and see if there's any option to disable the splash screen and instead show you the standard boot (POST) info.