Areca arc-1880IX-12 Questions

[Les Garten]

I am looking to do a Freenas box for my home. I have the arc-1880IX-12 card and about 9 2TB drives.

I had read that this card might cause me some issues but since I have it I thought I would use it.

Any tips or tricks as to whet to do or not to do with it?

Thanx!

<<Les Garten>>

 

[cyberjock]

Tip: Don't use it.

Trick: Don't use it.

Alternative option: Sell that card, buy an appropriate card for FreeNAS and pocket the difference (or buy more RAM).

I've made decent money doing ZFS recovery from that specific controller. :)

 

[Les Garten]

Tip: Don't use it.

Trick: Don't use it.

Alternative option: Sell that card, buy an appropriate card for FreeNAS and pocket the difference (or buy more RAM).

I've made decent money doing ZFS recovery from that specific controller. :)

Hi,
I had read something like that and was unsure about it. Can you suggest a cheap controller decent controller?

I was real proud when I bought this controller...

Thanx!

Les

 

[marbus90]

Either an IBM M1015, Dell H200 or LSI 9211-8i.

If you want to buy a new system and full-size ATX isn't an issue for you, have a look at the Socket 2011-3 options which come with 10x Intel SATA onboard.

 

[Les Garten]

Either an IBM M1015, Dell H200 or LSI 9211-8i.

If you want to buy a new system and full-size ATX isn't an issue for you, have a look at the Socket 2011-3 options which come with 10x Intel SATA onboard.

THANK-YOU!! You just answered my next question.

I was wondering about getting a 10 SATA board and just letting FreeNAS ,anage the RAID.

But I was looking over hardware comparability and was not coming up with good answers about what processors and hardware would work.

Do you have an ASUS board and CPU in mind that may work. I have some cash now that I have to sell my Areca card!

ATX is not an issue. I'll be getting a pretty good sized case for this.

 

[cyberjock]

ASUS makes a total of zero recommended boards. I have a sticky of hardware recommendations in the hardware section of the forum.

That card is great.. for hardware RAID. But we aren't doing hardware RAID, so it's something you shouldn't use. If I were doing hardware RAID it would be one of my first picks.

 

[Les Garten]

If I were doing hardware RAID it would be one of my first picks.

Thus my sadness...

Thanx for the pointer on the hardware.

 

[marbus90]

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10SRi-F.cfm or
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10SRL-F.cfm
together with an Xeon E5-1620 v3 and 2x Samsung M393A2G40DB0-CPB DIMMs for a start should be quite a nice system. Definitely not underpowered in any way.

To determine if there may be better choices for you, could you elaborate on future storage plans? Just replacing existing disks with bigger ones as time passes or scale-out with more HDDs in a single chassis?

 

[Les Garten]

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10SRi-F.cfm or
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10SRL-F.cfm
together with an Xeon E5-1620 v3 and 2x Samsung M393A2G40DB0-CPB DIMMs for a start should be quite a nice system. Definitely not underpowered in any way.

To determine if there may be better choices for you, could you elaborate on future storage plans? Just replacing existing disks with bigger ones as time passes or scale-out with more HDDs in a single chassis?

Hi, thanx.

Looking to do about (10) 2 TB drives.

Would like to do ZFS. Would like not too expensive, this is for my house. Low heat footprint. 24 hours.

I'm looking at 2 TB HDD because I have 6 of them presently. In the past I would have done RAID5 but after reading the RAID 5 has died article, I'm thinking at least double and maybe triple parity.

Will FreeNAS care that some of the drives are a different manufacturer for some of the 2 TB drives?

Those Supermicro boards look nice, and I've always liked Supermicro boards, but the chip and board and ECC DDR4 were a little more $$ than I planned. Might be able to swing it with the return from the Areca card.

 

[Les Garten]

I think I am going to do this thanx to some reading from the "Usual Suspects" here.

Xeon E3-1231V3
Supermicro X10SL7-F
16GB DDR3 ECC, 32GB in a month or so
SATA DOM 16GB
(10) 2 TB SATA HDDS in Z3

Cyberjock et al have done some great documentation here.

 

[marbus90]

that's what I would have recommended knowing that you don't want to upgrade that fast. however I'd do a 10disk raidz2 or 11disk raidz3 then.

If you want that in a smaller footprint with higher WAF, look at the LianLi PC-Q26 with the ASRock E3C224D4I-14S. Comes with easy swappable HDDs as well.

 

[Les Garten]

that's what I would have recommended knowing that you don't want to upgrade that fast. however I'd do a 10disk raidz2 or 11disk raidz3 then.

If you want that in a smaller footprint with higher WAF, look at the LianLi PC-Q26 with the ASRock E3C224D4I-14S. Comes with easy swappable HDDs as well.

WAF doesn't matter, I have a computer room ;)

Z3 is what I'm going to do for sure. Trying to figure out if I can re purpose a case at home. Thanx!