Do you have any issues with the caddy activity lights not working? I heard it uses the SATA signaling to show HD activity and thus doesn't need any additional cables (and I don't see any on the back plane) but i also got a different version from the one I normally see (with two sets of data cables, one for SATA one for SAS) so maybe something is messed up with this model?
Basically I only get HD activity lights on two (of the 12) caddies that are currently hooked up.
I also didn't like the fact that port one on the case is the far right port instead of the far left =( I didn't want to rehook up all the SATA back plane cables so I will just live with that.
The controller I am using right now is an ARC-1231ML. I was going to upgrade to the ARC-1680ix-24 but I heard from people on forums and from areca that the 1680ix-24 has issues with seagate AS series 1 TB drives so I ordered a ARC-1280ML but it wont come until next week.
Here are some pics of my setup
Yeah I know the cable job is not pretty/sucks but I didn't want to spend th money *just* to buy a modular power supply to save myself some cables which are in the way.
As soon as I get the ARC-1280ML next week I will be offloading all my data to two other raid6 servers at work so I can re-create the array from 12x1TB in raid5 to 20x1TB in raid6 (18 TB useable), woot!
Also if anyone has a cheap 1280ML they can sell me please let me know. I know the order won't be processed until after the weekend so I can cancel my order if need be since sadly the 1280ML is only $50 cheaper than the 1680ix-24 =(
And for those curious the temps on my drives went up only slightly (1-3 C) from my old CM stacker case and my CPU temp dropped about 13C! My CPU/mobo now runs at around 37C which is very good IMHO for a 2.4 Ghz core 2 duo OC'd to 3.5.
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