RS2WC040 and WD Caviar 3TB?

nutcase · 29 Dec 2012 at 07:06

Morning all

Can anyone confirm if the intel RS2WC040 RAID controller will work with WD 3TB drives? It's not specifically mentioned in the list of tested hardware but there is one 3tb drive mentioned.

Thanks

nutcase · 4 Jan 2013 at 18:34

Hi, thanks for that

looks promising. It's a brand new card so hopefully even the intel firmware is reasonably up to date

nutcase · 19 Jan 2013 at 19:24

Bonus - it worked as the intel card without having to flash it to LSI.

I've set up a quick RAID 1 drive to test and all seems ok - please could someone cast their eye over this atto test for me? I'm thinking the write speeds are pants but the read are perfectly acceptable? It will be mainly used for streaming media etc. so write speed is relatively unimportant.

Thanks

nutcase · 20 Jan 2013 at 07:58

Great thanks

nutcase · 2 Feb 2013 at 07:40

A couple more ATTO screenshots. Difference is I've now added a third 3TB WD Red and changed to RAID 5.

Without write cache:

And with write cache:

Raid%25205%2520with%2520Write%2520Cache.jpg

Unsurprisingly write speed has taken a big hit, but that's fine as the primary purpose for the array is to stream media so it will take a while to load, but with it pushing 300mbit/s out that'll do nicely