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“Stardom recently released a true 6 gigabit per second enclosure, the SOHOTANK ST8-U5.”
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Raidon/ST8U5/
https://www.barefeats.com/wst10d.html

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The good news is that it suits better your needs. And what’s exciting is that it will eventually get better when a proper, affordable and reliable 6Gb chasis will come out in 2011, hopefully.

I also have a ProAvio E8 MS chasis and upgraded to an ATTO R680, even thought I knew I wasnt going to use it at his full capacity at first. But I changed from a ARECA ARC-1680 because one of my friend encounter a problem with a the same card. He had corrupted data, and got close to none support from Areca. He was left by himself. So I decided to switch to ATTO that is thought a step above ARECA, for a better peace of mind. In that regard, and in yours also related to your fear of HPT, I now sleep better. And don’t mind paying a little premium for it.

I’ve have my ATTO R680 in a MacPro 12-Core 2.66, and it works fine for me.
I have 5x Seagate SAS 2TB 7200rpm in RAID6 for DATA, and 3x Seagate SAS 600GB 15000rpm in RAID0 for BOOT. With a RamDisk I’ve managed to reach about 300Mo/s read and write from my DATA raidset, and 450Mo/s read and write from my BOOT raidset.
https://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToUseARAMDisk.html

I would strongly advise that you use RAID6 for better protection, particularly when a drive fails. In RAID5, you are left unprotected during the restore process (even with a hot spare) that can take several hours to complete and not mentionning slowing down your process. RAID6, even better RAID6+spare, will keep your protected and still up and running event if one hard drive fails, and furthermore you don’t die even if two fails.
https://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/raid-5-theory-reality/983

I bought a ATTO R680 for peace of mind, and I got that. I took the R680 rather than the R380 because it could eventually give me better performance in the future for a little extra. I’m very happy that the R680 works with my ProAvio, a hassle less.

The ARC-8040 looks awsome. But I wouldn’t mind waiting a bit more, and pay a little bit more, for a ATTO equivalent.

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I’m sorry for giving out wrong hopes. I thought it was a 6Gb/s case. I’m pretty sure I about a 6Gb/s on AMUG or Barefeats. I’ll try to find it again.

I’m waiting for my R680 with CacheAssure to come in soon.

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https://macperformanceguide.com/HardwareRAID-iStoragePro.html

Check this link for a SAS enclosure that will run fine with your ATTO card.