Recent content by holty

I've read at least one review on Newegg about the Areca 1222 card and it working with 4kb sectors with no issues.

Um, ok :) Why do i need to do that? seriously, not being a smart a**, i truthfully do not know?

well, unfortunately i missed the open box sale on the 1880ix card. I'm going to pick up one of the 1880 cards as soon as they go back on sale. i'm in no hurry so i do not want to pay full price right now.

This is correct, and accurate, and the best way to reinstall fresh.

I have a OCZ drive, a Vertex EX 120GB SATA II drive on firmware 1.4 and am not having any problems. I got it back in late 2009 and have formatted and reinstalled windows 7 x64 several times. Flashed firmware a couple times. Never had any issues.

Thanks for the quick feed back. I'm thinking though with the 3 sas connectors giving me the ability to use up to 12 SATA drives, I will never need to use an expander, correct? I can't ever see this server running more than 8-10 drives.

Guys, would it benefit me to get a Areca ARC-1880ix-12 instead of the 1880i if i could get the 1880ix-12 for CHEAPER than theh 1880i?

Yes CDM is CrystalDiskMark. How large is the video? upload to youtube?

I know my case came with one SGPIO = SFF-8485 cable. It says it supports up to 4 drives so i will need another one to support 8 total. I was just wondering if you were using it. Its for the HDD LED's and health indicators.

Bish are you using the SGPIO cables for the HDD's?

good to know... anxously waiting for pics/vids

PICS!!! or VIDS!!!!

thanks for the advice....i was thinking that too, but really wanted to go with the best quality card in my budget. I'm finding that Areca is the best at this price point. Of course i have zero experience to back that up.

Noctua stuff is top quality. I have all Noctua fans and cpu heatsink in my desktop.

Hey I like your way of thinking, nothing wrong with giving people more things to think about and I surely wasn't thinking of the topics you just discussed. With that said, I WILL absolutely have a backup of my data on a separate NAS box. RAID 10 is not out of the question. I need to do some...