Areca 1680ix SAS Madness 1gb/s +

[Gogeta]

It's the same CPU as Areca, the entire hardware is generally the same, there is very little either can add considering the IOP handles just about everything.
The BIOS and the way RAID is handled is what differs the two, and considering the issues I have had with Areca for over a year (more than one a month), I would not recommend it to my worst enemy, much less to a normal person, and it costs more than Adaptec...
crappy piece of s***.

Has anyone else experienced similar problems? Were these issues spread out over several cards or just one? Did you try swapping out cables and drives?

[alfaunits]

Lots of similar and worse cases noted on forums.2cpu.com
Both on 1280ML with SATA drives and 1680 with SAS drives.
Yes it happened over different cables.

Has anyone else experienced similar problems? Were these issues spread out over several cards or just one? Did you try swapping out cables and drives?

[Gogeta]

Lots of similar and worse cases noted on forums.2cpu.com
Both on 1280ML with SATA drives and 1680 with SAS drives.
Yes it happened over different cables.

Thanks, I'll have a look.