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Western Digital Black WD1001FALS, purchased in January 2009, still running in a 24/7 PC.

Was the drive actually bad ? Did S.M.A.R.T. show reallocated sectors or Read Error Rate or something else increase ? I think Areca's tools (I use ArcHttp on Windows) don't show any actual useful SMART data (raw data values), you need to use other tools for it. When my ARC-1220 reported Reading...

I got an Areca ARC-1220 8-port SATA RAID controller card with 5 hard drives attached. Since 1 of the drives is going bad, I decided to remove it. Now I understand that I should be able to simply hot-unplug it with the system running, but I saw the "Offline Raid Set" option in the web management...

I've got an Areca ARC-1220 RAID card which has some pin headers on the board for hard drive LED activity. In theory I know how to connect an LED to a header like that, but where do I put the LED ? Note that I'm using the card in a regular PC case. So I'm wondering if some kind of a cheap/generic...

I just bought an Areca ARC-1210 SATA RAID card although I did not receive it yet. I am going through the user manual and I am trying to figure out in what capacity this card/software reports hard drive S.M.A.R.T. data to the user. Until now I was using standalone drives and drives in ICH10R RAID...