Probably a very stupid question, but does the ARC-1200 support 1 8Tb volume from 2 4Tb HD's?

 

Can't seem to find the answer, enough references on other ARC cards, but none on this specifically.

 

I read the release notes for the latest firmware, but also there is no mention about large HD's (for the ARC-1200).

 

Who has one and can confirm if this would/wouldn't work?

 

Thanks

 

from the horse's mouth:

"Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)"

 

http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pciex1_2p_internal.htm

Yes, and I did that very thing for a while.

interwebtech:

 

I read that too, but does it mean:

 

- 2 x 2 Tb drive to get 4 Tb volume is supported

 

or

 

-2 x 4 Tb drive to get 8 Tb volume is supported?

 

The IBM ServeRAID BR10i also does support larger than 2 Tb volumes, but drives are only supported till 2.2 TB.

 

Is the ARC-1200 the same as the BR10i?

 

I can only find references to larger than 2Tb volumes...

 

 

StevenD:

 

Thanks!

-2 x 4 Tb drive to get 8 Tb volume is supported?

Support for disks > 2.2 TB (disks, not volumes) was introduced in firmware 1.49, AFAIK. Check your firmware version...

 

Probably a very stupid question, but does the ARC-1200 support 1 8Tb volume from 2 4Tb HD's?

 

Can't seem to find the answer, enough references on other ARC cards, but none on this specifically.

 

I read the release notes for the latest firmware, but also there is no mention about large HD's (for the ARC-1200).

 

Who has one and can confirm if this would/wouldn't work?

 

Thanks

 

The ARC-1200 definitely supports > 2T drives. I currently run 2x3T=6T RAID0 parity on mine, and am sure it will support 2x4T=8T and even larger.

 

With RAID cards it is easy to confuse being able to CREATE arrays larger than 2T vs supporting physical disks >2T. This does both as opposed to the old LSI BR10i which supports large RAID sets but is limited to using physical drives 2T and smaller. (Their advertising seemed to intentionally confuse the two!)