Recommended Raid Card for Macpro 3,1 with future updates in mind

[Bob Zelin]

I have been using Areca 1882x with great results recently.

It’s a teriffic purchase.

Bob Zelin

[John Mcdonald]

Update on Raid in 2008 Macpro 3.1

Installed 1882X, driver and webGUI software, configured Raid-5 (5-1T drives), created raid (quickly compared to HP), mounted and partitioned – absolutely no issues, backed up four internal and one external Macbook Pro, cloned system disk and reinstalled on SSD – Highly recommended!

Software, tech support first rate, latter by engineers, not sales reps who would rather sell you a newer, presumably equally non-functional product.

Thanks to all advice.

John

[Bob Zelin]

Told you that the 1882x card was teriffic.

This is a “newer” product. It just came out. The ARC-1880x was the “new” product in early 2011.

Bob Zelin

[Rob Curley]

Yes but it’s terrible if you want low latency. I haven’t yet been able to tune it for multible streams and Areca support is yet to be desired.