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Yep, really disapoints me with WD. I like WD but this is upsetting. I will probably be watching to see how the Samsung F1 320 drives do. I like using the smaller single platter high density drives for the raid setup.

The problem is the motherboard won't spin up the drives because they are waiting for the signal to spin up from the raid controller. That is the problem with WD not supporting the staggered spinup. If it happens once, they won't work without it again.

So is there a way to load the driver for the raid card when doing this. I have 4 WD drives that have been disabled from running on anything but the raid controller thanks to the lovely staggered boot issue. I need to be able to do the TLER, but it doesn't see my drives because of them being on...

There is no data that I am worried about. The problem right now is getting the motherboard to recognize the drive. Currently it just sits there trying to detect sata1, sata2, etc. I was wondering if this had to do with the initialization process of the raid controller. I have already went in...

Setting up 5 WD640s in a raid5 on a Highpoint 3510 controller. I didn't set the tler on so now I am trying to do it. Unfortunately the tler software doesn't work with the controller so I am trying to redo the drives and put them on the 750i motherboard controller. The motherboard won't seem...

Everyone swears by Areca, and I have one on the way, I also have a Highpoint 3510 on the way as well. The Highpoint uses the same intel IOP chips as Areca, so it should be good. The 3510 only has 4 connectors though. The Areca 1220 has connections for 8 SATA drives and can be found for around...

And then there is the rocketraid 3520 which uses the IOP341 and is pretty cheap comparitavely. I am not interested in Highpoint that much, but the use of the 341 chip interests me.

I hadn't looked at the 3805, but that would be a nice option as well.

The SAS, extra memory, and processor are the main reasons I am considering the Adaptec. I don't know if I would ever use the SAS, but it is nice to have the option. I realize the memory and processor do not guarantee extra performance or faster boot times, thus my reason for looking for...

I am looking at getting a raid card with the plan of running 6 Western Digital 640GB drives. I operate Windows XP, Vista, and Linux 64bit. I have narrowed it to the Areca 1220 and the Adaptec 5805. I like the cable management more on the adaptec, but I am not sure what the preferences are...