RAID Card - Current firmware limiting capacity?

We have tried using 1.5TB drives with the Mac Pro RAID card and had some serious reliability issues from the outset.
We're wondering if the firmware simply hasn't been designed to support capacities over the 1TB that Apple sells. Both Hitachi and Seagate currently limit their Enterprise class 7200rpm SATA drives to 1TB. Apple uses the Hitachi Ultrastar drives as far as I've seen so far.
I'd like to know from a good source (if not Apple) whether or not the firmware is to blame because 1.5TB Enterprise-class drives don't yet exist.

Same here....WD 1.5 TB drives..Created a single 3.7TB RAID5 set with a single volume. Appeared to be just fine...few days later drops a drive. Set the drive as a spare, it rebuilds. Corruption all over the place. Then it says the raid5 volume is unrecognized and goes into safe mode (ie. Read only). Funny thing is all the apple people (enterprise support, local stores, etc...) all said 1.5TB drives should work....ordering 1TB Hitachi's.
Come on apple...for a $700 raid card you can do better. I believe it is an Areca card (ARC-1212 maybe???)
Running it on a 8-core 2.8 w/ 10GB RAM, everything up to date...Raid card says:
Hardware Version 1.00
Firmware Version M-2.0.3.3
Expansion ROM 0018
Battery on Raid is fine and fully charged:
Firmware: 1.0d19

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    0xffffff8221563eb0 : 0xffffff7f98b1441e
    0xffffff8221563ef0 : 0xffffff8017aada80
    0xffffff8221563f30 : 0xffffff8017aac522
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  • I can not upgrade S370 because RAID Firrmware update is necesary, but it is not for my RAID card

    Hi guys.
    When i trry to upgrade my Ironport S370 Web Security Appliance for AsyncOS 7.7.0 build 761 upgrade, by example, it said me thar Update RAID Firmware is necesary for it, but if i try to update this firmware, the system said me that it is not for my RAID card
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    This is the cli result for the upgrades:
    SFPPRXY1P.intranet.cajastur.es> upgrade 
    Upgrades available.
    1. AsyncOS 7.7.0 build 753 upgrade For Web, 2014-07-07
    2. AsyncOS 7.7.0 build 757 upgrade For Web, 2014-07-28
    3. AsyncOS 7.7.0 build 761 upgrade For Web, 2014-10-01
    4. AsyncOS 8.0.6 build 119 upgrade for Web, 2014-10-27,  is a release available for General Deployment
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    [5]> 5
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    Upgrade installation finished.
    SFPPRXY1P.intranet.cajastur.es> upgrade
    Upgrades available.
    1. AsyncOS 7.7.0 build 753 upgrade For Web, 2014-07-07
    2. AsyncOS 7.7.0 build 757 upgrade For Web, 2014-07-28
    3. AsyncOS 7.7.0 build 761 upgrade For Web, 2014-10-01
    4. AsyncOS 8.0.6 build 119 upgrade for Web, 2014-10-27,  is a release available for General Deployment
    5. Update for RAID controller firmware (For S360/S370/S660/S670 only, reboot required)
    [5]> 4
    Performing an upgrade may require a reboot of the system after the upgrade is applied. You may log in again after this is done. Do
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    Removing stale lock file
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    The system upgrade failed. This could be the result of a network interruption or a more serious error.  If this problem persists,
    please contact customer support.
    SFPPRXY1P.intranet.cajastur.es> 
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    - what's your current software version running (did you check upgrade path)? maybe you need first to upgrade to 753 or some other version..
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    Interval Since Last Panic Report:  33 sec
    Panics Since Last Report:          1
    Anonymous UUID:                    8E477550-157D-4F61-98B8-FB69817663EB
    Tue Sep 27 07:25:22 2011
    panic(cpu 22 caller 0xffffff7f811ace58): "AppleRAIDCard controller panic"@/SourceCache/AppleHWRaidDriver/AppleHWRaidDriver-208/Driver/Driver/Apple RAIDCard.cp:1004
    Backtrace (CPU 22), Frame : Return Address
    0xffffff8755ec3e30 : 0xffffff8000220702
    0xffffff8755ec3eb0 : 0xffffff7f811ace58
    0xffffff8755ec3ef0 : 0xffffff8000639536
    0xffffff8755ec3f30 : 0xffffff80006382b0
    0xffffff8755ec3f70 : 0xffffff8000638154
    0xffffff8755ec3fb0 : 0xffffff8000820057
          Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
             com.apple.driver.AppleRAIDCard(208.0)[5E0325A5-48E1-34D2-A854-D6989AE4A436]@0xf fffff7f811a9000->0xffffff7f811befff
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice(3.0.0)[93FEFB65-F21E-3ACE-84D6-D60CFD 385062]@0xffffff7f807b7000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.5)[95ABB490-3AB5-3D5E-9C21-67089A9AE6A1]@0xffff ff7f8085e000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIParallelFamily(2.5.0)[AD112575-F6D2-3463-BE1F-89F8F2A313B 2]@0xffffff7f8084e000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(3.0.0)[2A3F0115-37C0-3BA7-B44A-C5 2F68300485]@0xffffff7f80768000
    BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
    Mac OS version:
    11A511
    Kernel version:
    Darwin Kernel Version 11.0.0: Sat Jun 18 12:56:35 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.22.73~1/RELEASE_X86_64
    Kernel UUID: 24CC17EB-30B0-3F6C-907F-1A9B2057AF78
    System model name: MacPro5,1 (Mac-F221BEC8)
    System uptime in nanoseconds: 2648888832875
    last loaded kext at 72921875740: com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction          81 (addr 0xffffff7f81eec000, size 16384)
    last unloaded kext at 162860431554: com.apple.driver.StorageLynx          3.0.0 (addr 0xffffff7f81138000, size 8192)
    loaded kexts:
    com.makemkv.kext.daspi          1
    com.sony.scsi.PDW-U1          2.32.0d008
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelProfile          81
    com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs          1.7
    com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor          1.9.4d0
    com.apple.filesystems.autofs          3.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet          1.0.0d1
    com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient          3.5.9
    com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver          122
    com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl          1.0.24
    com.apple.driver.AppleTyMCEDriver          1.0.2d2
    com.apple.driver.AGPM          100.12.40
    com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver          2.1.1f11
    com.apple.kext.ATIFramebuffer          7.0.2
    com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC          1.59
    com.apple.driver.Intel82574L          2.2.0b1
    com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X          7.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleHDA          2.1.1f11
    com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch          66.3
    com.apple.ATIRadeonX3000          7.0.2
    com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver          1.2.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBDisplays          302.1.2
    com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331          500.20.6
    com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin          4.7.0b2
    com.apple.driver.AppleLPC          1.5.1
    com.apple.driver.Oxford_Semi          3.0.0
    com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient          3.0.0
    com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless          1.0.0d1
    com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib          1.0.0d1
    com.apple.BootCache          32
    com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI          4.8.6
    com.apple.driver.AppleRAIDCard          208
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub          4.4.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort          2.1.8
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI          4.4.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI          4.4.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM          1.5.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleRTC          1.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleHPET          1.6
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons          1.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS          1.7
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC          1.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC          1.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient          166.0.0
    com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall          3.0.30
    com.apple.security.quarantine          1
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement          166.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction          81
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction          81
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction          81
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction          81
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction          81
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction          81
    com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily          81
    com.apple.kext.triggers          1.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleAVBAudio          1.0.0d11
    com.apple.iokit.IOSurface          80.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager          2.5f17
    com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily          10.0.5
    com.apple.iokit.IOAVBFamily          1.0.0d22
    com.apple.iokit.IOEthernetAVBController          1.0.0d5
    com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib          2.1.1f11
    com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver          220.62
    com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver          2.5f17
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController          1.0.10d0
    com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport          2.3
    com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP          2.2.3
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBAudio          2.7.9f6
    com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily          1.8.3fc11
    com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib          1.3
    com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController          2.1.1f11
    com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily          2.1.1f11
    com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family          400.40
    com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily          2.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMC          3.1.1d2
    com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily          4.7.0b2
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI          1.0.10d0
    com.apple.kext.ATI5000Controller          7.0.2
    com.apple.kext.ATISupport          7.0.2
    com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily          2.3
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHIDKeyboard          152.3
    com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard          152.3
    com.apple.driver.XsanFilter          403
    com.apple.driver.BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController          2.5f17
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController          2.5f17
    com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily          2.5f17
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver          4.4.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport          2.1.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSBP2          4.2.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass          3.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub          4.4.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite          3.9.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice          3.0.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily          1.6
    com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily          1.6
    com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily          1.7
    com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily          4.4.3
    com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIParallelFamily          2.5.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI          2.0.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient          4.4.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily          2.0.6
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily          4.4.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime          1.5.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily          1.7.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily          1.1
    com.apple.security.sandbox          165
    com.apple.kext.AppleMatch          1.0.0d1
    com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet          7
    com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice          3.0.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily          3.0.0
    com.apple.driver.DiskImages          326
    com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily          1.7
    com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore          28.18
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform          1.4
    com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily          2.6.5
    com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily          1.4
    Model: MacPro5,1, BootROM MP51.007F.B03, 12 processors, 6-Core Intel Xeon, 2.93 GHz, 64 GB, SMC 1.39f11
    Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770, ATI Radeon HD 5770, PCIe, 1024 MB
    Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770, ATI Radeon HD 5770, PCIe, 1024 MB
    Memory Module: DIMM 1, 8 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1333 MHz, 0x802C, 0x33364A535A4631473732505A2D3147344431
    Memory Module: DIMM 2, 8 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1333 MHz, 0x802C, 0x33364A535A4631473732505A2D3147344431
    Memory Module: DIMM 3, 8 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1333 MHz, 0x802C, 0x33364A535A4631473732505A2D3147344431
    Memory Module: DIMM 4, 8 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1333 MHz, 0x802C, 0x33364A535A4631473732505A2D3147344431
    Memory Module: DIMM 5, 8 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1333 MHz, 0x802C, 0x33364A535A4631473732505A2D3147344431
    Memory Module: DIMM 6, 8 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1333 MHz, 0x802C, 0x33364A535A4631473732505A2D3147344431
    Memory Module: DIMM 7, 8 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1333 MHz, 0x802C, 0x33364A535A4631473732505A2D3147344431
    Memory Module: DIMM 8, 8 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1333 MHz, 0x802C, 0x33364A535A4631473732505A2D3147344431
    AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8E), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.100.98.75.6)
    Bluetooth: Version 2.5.0f17, 2 service, 19 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
    Network Service: Built-in Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
    PCI Card: Apple RAID Card, sppci_raid, Slot-4
    PCI Card: ATI Radeon HD 5770, sppci_displaycontroller, Slot-1
    PCI Card: ATI Radeon HD 5770, sppci_displaycontroller, Slot-2
    Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH61N
    Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST BD-RE  WH12LS38
    USB Device: hub_device, apple_vendor_id, 0x9126, 0xfa200000 / 2
    USB Device: Keyboard Hub, apple_vendor_id, 0x1006, 0xfa210000 / 6
    USB Device: Apple Keyboard, apple_vendor_id, 0x024f, 0xfa212000 / 7
    USB Device: Apple LED Cinema Display, apple_vendor_id, 0x9226, 0xfa260000 / 5
    USB Device: Display Audio, apple_vendor_id, 0x1105, 0xfa240000 / 4
    USB Device: Display iSight, apple_vendor_id, 0x8508, 0xfa250000 / 3
    USB Device: hub_device, apple_vendor_id, 0x9126, 0xfd300000 / 3
    USB Device: Display iSight, apple_vendor_id, 0x8508, 0xfd350000 / 8
    USB Device: Display Audio, apple_vendor_id, 0x1105, 0xfd340000 / 7
    USB Device: Apple LED Cinema Display, apple_vendor_id, 0x9226, 0xfd360000 / 6
    USB Device: USB2.0 Hub, 0x05e3  (Genesys Logic, Inc.), 0x0608, 0xfd100000 / 2
    USB Device: Mass Storage Device, 0x058f  (Alcor Micro, Corp.), 0x6387, 0xfd140000 / 5
    USB Device: DS Pro2, 0x0102, 0x0a22, 0xfd120000 / 4
    USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c  (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x5a100000 / 2
    USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8215, 0x5a110000 / 3
    FireWire Device: built-in_hub, 800mbit_speed
    FireWire Device: OEM ATA Device 00, G-TECH, 800mbit_speed
    FireWire Device: unknown_device, unknown_speed

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    I've had exactly the same issue. Whenever my Macpro is doing lots of computations it will crash, even when I am neither reading nor writing to/from the internal RAID drive. What were you doing when they crashed? I did a hardware test and it is not hardware related. I am still waiting for Applecare people to retunr my calls...
    This is the latest crash report.
    Interval Since Last Panic Report:  418628 sec
    Panics Since Last Report:          8
    Anonymous UUID:                    11D3BB11-032E-4587-B4F8-0F630F357E16
    Wed Sep 28 11:58:53 2011
    panic(cpu 14 caller 0xffffff7f81b1de58): "AppleRAIDCard controller panic"@/SourceCache/AppleHWRaidDriver/AppleHWRaidDriver-208/Driver/Driver/Apple RAIDCard.cp:1004
    Backtrace (CPU 14), Frame : Return Address
    0xffffff872519be30 : 0xffffff8000220702
    0xffffff872519beb0 : 0xffffff7f81b1de58
    0xffffff872519bef0 : 0xffffff8000639626
    0xffffff872519bf30 : 0xffffff80006383a0
    0xffffff872519bf70 : 0xffffff8000638244
    0xffffff872519bfb0 : 0xffffff8000820057
          Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
             com.apple.driver.AppleRAIDCard(208.0)[5E0325A5-48E1-34D2-A854-D6989AE4A436]@0xf fffff7f81b1a000->0xffffff7f81b2ffff
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice(3.0.0)[93FEFB65-F21E-3ACE-84D6-D60CFD 385062]@0xffffff7f808a7000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.5)[95ABB490-3AB5-3D5E-9C21-67089A9AE6A1]@0xffff ff7f80821000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIParallelFamily(2.5.0)[AD112575-F6D2-3463-BE1F-89F8F2A313B 2]@0xffffff7f80811000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(3.0.0)[2A3F0115-37C0-3BA7-B44A-C5 2F68300485]@0xffffff7f807e7000
    BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
    Mac OS version:
    11B26
    Kernel version:
    Darwin Kernel Version 11.1.0: Tue Jul 26 16:07:11 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.22.81~1/RELEASE_X86_64
    Kernel UUID: D52AAB80-B2BC-3C6E-BBEA-78BD28064998
    System model name: MacPro5,1 (Mac-F221BEC8)
    System uptime in nanoseconds: 1996751535896
    last loaded kext at 63991262168: com.apple.filesystems.ntfs    3.8 (addr 0xffffff7f8084b000, size 376832)
    last unloaded kext at 259769775048: com.apple.driver.AppleIntel8254XEthernet    2.1.3b1 (addr 0xffffff7f80c46000, size 110592)
    loaded kexts:
    com.mcafee.kext.Virex    1.1.0d1
    com.parallels.kext.prl_vnic    7.0 14922.693916
    com.parallels.kext.prl_netbridge    7.0 14922.693916
    com.parallels.kext.prl_hid_hook    7.0 14922.693916
    com.parallels.kext.prl_hypervisor    7.0 14922.693916
    com.parallels.kext.prl_usb_connect    7.0 14922.693916
    com.apple.filesystems.ntfs    3.8
    com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor    1.9.4d0
    com.apple.filesystems.autofs    3.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch    66.3
    com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC    1.59
    com.apple.driver.AppleTyMCEDriver    1.0.2d2
    com.apple.driver.AGPM    100.12.40
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBDisplays    302.1.2
    com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver    122
    com.apple.driver.AppleHDA    2.1.1f12
    com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver    2.1.1f12
    com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient    3.5.9
    com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl    1.0.24
    com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet    1.0.0d1
    com.apple.kext.ATIFramebuffer    7.0.4
    com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X    7.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver    1.2.0
    com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin    4.7.0b2
    com.apple.driver.AppleLPC    1.5.1
    com.apple.ATIRadeonX3000    7.0.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleRAID    4.0.6
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    http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/enhance/rs16js/
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