Drive Selection for Areca + Hp SAS expander.

[nicholasfarmer]

Up to 12+ hours of digging through HardForum and the interweb on this subject.

I've found the complete spectrum with every drive.
Some individuals have installed Western Digital 2TB Green drives and had no problems. Some have tweaked the settings to get it to work and others have crashed and burned.
The same goes with Seagate 7200.11 and Samsung F3drives.
I see a lot of threads that talk about Hitachi is the way to go for Areca setups.
For example:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1493716

Could I get some hands of Hard users that have an Arc-1680, SAS Expander, and what drives they are using including system uptime.

Thanks mucho!

 

[randomlychosen]

It depends on which 1680 model you are talking about. 7200.11 drives work fine on the i and x versions, but do not work on the ix versions, for example.

 

[nitrobass24]

Hitachi is what i use on my Areca/HP Exander setup

No problems here