high speed SFF-8088 cable connector that combines

 I found that it is highly beneficial to force the individual SFF-8088 cable write caches to "Enabled" with the Areca system menu (then reboot), otherwise the initialization would take days. With a battery backup, when the SFF-8088 cable write cache is set to auto, that corresponds to disabling the write cache, which is normally what you want, but during initialization of the array it is better to have it enabled temporarily.The only problem I had with these servers is with the v1.46 firmware that shipped on the Areca's. There was high latency the first time a file is read or written, about 2 or 3 seconds. But when I upgraded the firmware to v1.47, this problem went away. Now all servers are happily serving more than 20 TB of data each, with only 1 SFF-8088 cable failure out of 64 SFF-8088 cable (infant mortality?).Can you describe in more detail your Areca 1680ix setup and what exactly you observed with the WD2002FYPS drives?high speed SFF-8088 cable connector that combines four (4) low-cost SATA ... friendly physical enclosure management, specifically its cable-less backplane