I suspect the seagates are operating outside of their defined maximum current draws. I don't really have the equipment to measure this properly though. The problem with RAID is that when syncing up writes, a simultaneous cache flush is done, and this is suspected to cause a spike in power draw and presumably a drive isn't getting what it needs and "funny" errors crop up. Switching to a single 12V raile (max 50A) seems to have helped. Doesn't really make sense, drive has max 2A draw, but its hard to ignore the fact that it appears to make a difference... Of course, only had these issues with seagate barracuda lp 2tb drives so far (only seagate drives I have); sata2 variant of the drives. If you can rig it, try to run the drives off a diff psu and see if that works??? Definitely less than ideal.... On 2011-04-01, Vasco