On 02/16/2010 06:17 PM, Gordon McLellan wrote: > The low price of these cards makes me suspicious, compared to the more > expensive pre-merger 3ware cards and considerably more expensive Areca > ARC-1680. Dont have an answer to your question as such, but I can tell you that the Arc-1680's are very nice. I've been using 4 of these cards for a few months now. no problems, and excellent performance ( i run raid-10, 12 disks off each of the hba's ) - KB