Well just got my HP expander card along with an areca 1880 and 10x 2tb hitachi deskstar hard disks. I must report I did have a few hiccups during the build but nothing major. I even got a 9x 2tb wdc ears raid to work with it. (10th drive had issues and caused most hiccups it is being replaced)...
wow am I a newb, this site has really educated me. The 5805 will be on ebay once I get my 3ware 9690sa. it is only a month old and I should get more than I paid for it. I will also purchase a uek 13601 from chenbro and not buy any more EARS drives. I am now also looking into the 3 terabyte hard...
I have a norco 4020 case with 10x 2tb western digital drives(EARS) along with a adaptec 5805 controller and a chenbro CK12803 ver. A1
I have had nothing but trouble with setting this thing up drives dropping expander drops in the middle of copying data etc.
Late last night I decided that the...