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houkouonchi
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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 is a picture of the backplane:
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 is a picture of the backplane:
