Well, my aforementioned drive problems returned within a couple of days after installing the refurbs that Seagate sent. After noticing that the replacement drives, which were working ok, were running CC34 firmware (as opposed to the CC32 firmware on the rest of my drives), a little googling led me to this link to CC35 [...]
One of the primary functions of the server is to host my collection of DVDs/Blu-rays for streaming to a Windows Media Center PC. That said, I need a lot of disk space. It’s predecessor had 6.75TB of disk space; this one will have 16TB. Here’s the hardware list:
Lian Li PC-A71F case
Corsair CMPSU-750HX power supply
Asus M4A78T-E [...]