[Joe Church]

I am having the exact same type of issues on a Windows system with a desktop RAID solution over eSATA. I can tell you with a high level of confidence that your issues are caused by the same thing as mine. Its your drives. I have done a ton of research over the last few days because I wanted to get cheap 3TB SATA drives to use in my desktop RAID enclosure. I got Toshiba drives, decent but not meant for RAID or NAS. You said your drives are WD Blues, which are also not meant for RAID or NAS solutions. I can almost guarantee you that if you run out and grab some WD Reds or some of the better Seagate NAS drives, you will not have this problem. Desktop class drives don’t handle error correction very well and if the drives you use aren’t fully compatible with the RAID controller and its required feature set in the drives, then you will have these kinds of issues. You don’t need to replace your entire RAID, but you do need new drives. Unfortunately the drives are one of the most expensive parts. I’m in the same boat.