Seagate LPs and Hardware RAID

[PhoenixC5]

So I bought some Seagate 2TB LP drives (model ST32000542AS). I also picked up a 3Ware 9590SE-8i from a fellow forum member. I put it all together and the drives show up and I build the array. While the bios for the 3Ware card shows only 6.97 TB, the management site in Windows shows 12.7TB. This is good.

Now for the bad...

Every so often one of the drives will just cut out and disappear from the array long enough for the array to be degraded. This of course forces a rebuild of the array that takes about 7 hours. Great....

My question is, does this have something to do with the drives, the arrays, windows? What?!

Is there something setting on the drives I need to change? It seems to only do this during heavy disk activity. I do not believe that it has done while idle. The error in the log:
ERROR : Jan 19, 2011 12:56:23PM: Controller 0: Drive timeout detected: port=1

It has happened on ports 1, 5, and now 6. So I don't believe it to be a failing drive issue...unless I have terribly bad luck on 8 brand new drives.

Help!!!

 

[PhoenixC5]

ERROR : Jan 19, 2011 01:06:28 PM: Controller 0: Drive timeout detected: port=1
ERROR : Jan 19, 2011 01:03:37 PM: Controller 0: Drive timeout detected: port=1
ERROR : Jan 19, 2011 01:02:20 PM: Controller 0: Drive timeout detected: port=1
ERROR : Jan 19, 2011 12:56:23 PM: Controller 0: Drive timeout detected: port=1

It seems to be getting worse. I am unzipping a file right now.