So I like many others was lured by the relatively low price. My situation requires 2 4-disk raid5 arrays, and the next cheapest card with 8 SATA ports costs $400 on Newegg, so I decided to take a chance on the 2320.
The array initialization time is worse than pure Windows software raid. It's been 14 hours and my 4x1T array is only at 36%. If rebuilds take that long I might as well return it. Running with latest BIOS/driver on XP SP3 Intel E2200 with 4 GB RAM. Nothing else is running on the box, and CPU utilization is like nil.
On the other hand it has variable sector size so even 32bit OS can see raid partitions up to 16T. Management software doesn't support authenticated SMTP.
Just wondering if anyone else's ran into the slow initialization problem.
The array initialization time is worse than pure Windows software raid. It's been 14 hours and my 4x1T array is only at 36%. If rebuilds take that long I might as well return it. Running with latest BIOS/driver on XP SP3 Intel E2200 with 4 GB RAM. Nothing else is running on the box, and CPU utilization is like nil.
On the other hand it has variable sector size so even 32bit OS can see raid partitions up to 16T. Management software doesn't support authenticated SMTP.
Just wondering if anyone else's ran into the slow initialization problem.