SFF-8088 cable is constructed of high quality materials

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?Tripp Lite’s S524-01M External SAS cable features SFF-8088 cable connectors with heavy- duty metal backshells. This 4-channel Infiniband cable is constructed with high-performance Amphenol Spectra-Strip SKEWCLEAR cable which features individually shielded parallel pairs double EMI/RFI shielding and 3.0 Gigabytes per second performance. Tripp Lite Lifetime warranty.Primary InformationStorage Cable Type Serial attached SCSI (SAS) external cable Cable Technology http://www.fiberyes.com/external-sff-8088-y-cable Double shielded Dimensions&MiscellaneousLength 3.281 feet Color Black Storage CableLeft Connector Before the popularity of SAS Expanders, people had to use SFF-8088 cable adapters to convert unused internal ports into external ports. This is still common for SATA controllers, or SAS controllers that are not being used with a SAS Expander setup.