I am about to pull the trigger on an Areca 1882ix-16 version 3 RAID card. My Highpoint 3520 has annoyed me one too many times - it's favorite trick appears to be hanging windows for several minutes during boot, but I am also blaming it for my Asus Xonar D2X soundcard driver refusing to install because "the card is not plugged in". Sounds like an IRQ conflict or other such silliness. The RAID array aspect has been perfectly reliable, but I have about had it with not playing nice with the rest of the computer. It is an HTPC as well as a storage server in a Norco 4220 case, so soundcard issues are not going to work.
The motherboard I use is a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P (rev. 1.0). I do not have any plans to upgrade it for the next couple years as it is plenty powerful. Are there any known compatibility issues with this board and Areca? Hopefully I'm not blaming Highpoint for a Gigabyte problem. I know I can remove the 3 TB Hitachi drives and replace them with 1 TB drives and the boot hang problem goes away, so seems to point to Highpoint.
The motherboard I use is a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P (rev. 1.0). I do not have any plans to upgrade it for the next couple years as it is plenty powerful. Are there any known compatibility issues with this board and Areca? Hopefully I'm not blaming Highpoint for a Gigabyte problem. I know I can remove the 3 TB Hitachi drives and replace them with 1 TB drives and the boot hang problem goes away, so seems to point to Highpoint.
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