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1. Re: Help installing Areca 1882ix-12
JEShort01 Mar 8, 2012 8:37 PM (in response to RFDPiper)You can totally ignore how which drives attach to the cabling. And unlike some recent horror stories on this forum about motherboard RAID sets being lost, anything that you configure on an Areca can be unplugged, replugged, and plugged into a different Areca controller card without much risk at all of losing anything at all.
Jim
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2. Re: Help installing Areca 1882ix-12
JSS1138 Mar 8, 2012 8:42 PM (in response to RFDPiper)Can you even have multiple RAIDs on one card? I'd always assumed it was one RAID per controller.
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3. Re: Help installing Areca 1882ix-12
wonderspark Mar 8, 2012 8:43 PM (in response to RFDPiper)You need 8087 to SATA breakout cables, which split the 8087 into four SATA connectors. Something like this should work from Monoprice, or there are other options if you don't need the power cables included in the same cable like that.
You can run up to 12 disks internally and configure the RAID set(s) any way you like. It's not limited to the three connections on the card. You can also run four more disks via the external port, and they can be part of the internal RAID set(s) as well, if you want. It's very flexible that way, and you can do 16 disks total in that manner.
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4. Re: Help installing Areca 1882ix-12
RFDPiper Mar 9, 2012 9:14 AM (in response to RFDPiper)Can you even have multiple RAIDs on one card? I'd always assumed it was one RAID per controller
Uh-oh, can anyone confirm that this card can control multiple raid sets? If not, anyone want to buy a raid card?
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5. Re: Help installing Areca 1882ix-12
Bill Gehrke Mar 9, 2012 9:31 AM (in response to RFDPiper)RFDPiper wrote:
Can you even have multiple RAIDs on one card? I'd always assumed it was one RAID per controller
Uh-oh, can anyone confirm that this card can control multiple raid sets? If not, anyone want to buy a raid card?
Absolutely you can have any number of RAID's on the Areca cards




