Recent content by diehard2k9

Hello I am having some problems and i'm not sure if it the areca 1880ix-16 or my hard drives, SSD. When using Atto benchmark My write speed is much faster than my read speed. Atto seem to have a problem with the my 2 WD Black 1tb in raid0 or single. The read speed stalls or crash and it get a...

I use my green drive for everything, they are fast enough for me. Like i said i had wd re drives raid5 and there was nothing special about them but the price. Black drive as super fast but the heat and power is something i dont want to deal with. Having 10 WD 2TB Black, would be super fast. with...

Well I for one think that there storage performance is great and 250M/s and counting. Faster than my RE drives that I dropped large for. It was a paon to backup all my files from the old raid5 but restoring them was nothing but awe:D. That was only less than half my array, will be adding another...

hi thx for the reply, not sure what you mean by sector scrub? I was thinking to have it spin down and i can leave it up 24/7. I have a 1880ix-16 with firmware 148 anyone running firmware 149?

Hey are you spinning down your drives with the areca controller? I have two WD blacks 1TB and I dont know if i should raid0 them or sell them. I also notice that sometime when i have to reboot one of my SSD get set to SATA 1 @ 150, any way to fix that? my controller is Areca 1880ix-16 1GB

More info on my WD Green 4X 2TB Raid5 These drives are super in Raid5. I am able to copy to it from two different source one Esata and the other is the D drive which is a WD 1TB Black each with a speed of 100M/s, I dont think I have maxed out the Raid5 yet.

Hello all i am new and want to let everyone know that I have just gotten my Raid5 up and running. It is with 4 WD Grean 2TB drives EARS version. I had 4 WD RE Drives and they were not as fast in raid5. These WD Green are rea; fast I am getting 100 M/S copying from 1 WD Black 1TB. I am real happy...