Stardom drive with areca card mini-sas causing fcp problem

Hi everyone,
I have a stardom st8-U5 with mini-sas containing 8x wd black 2tb in raid6 connected to areca 1222x in my pcie slot
My macpro is early 2009 8 core with 8 gig ram installed running fcp studio3
i have nothing but problems ever since I upgraded to this stardom drive and I'm very much desperate for a solution. The drive is fast by itself but not when im editing in fcp...
When I first bought the drive, it was filled with 8 x 3tb hitachis and it the drive was very inconsistent. It would edit very fast in one time, and lag a few minutes later to the point where I have to restart my system to bring back the speed. The seller said that it may be the problem with the 3tb drives is not very compatible with the driver yet so we decided to do a drive swap with the mighty caviar blacks.
However, the problem persists.. It would be fine in one time and be very slow and choppy a few minutes later. It is generally fine when I'm editing in "low" quality RT but I don't go out and buy a 3000 dollars system to edit in "low" res...
When I skim through the footage in the timeline, it produces preview images very fast, but not during playback.
I'm editing AIC codec from dslr transcoded footage.
Areca support is nil.. they never replied my emails... stardom claims that the problem is not with their drive but rather with the card/fcp itself.. I somehow agree...
furthermore, I have run digital rebellion software, disc utility with no success..
ANY help will be hugely hugely appreciated.. thank you in advance
Santo

did you format the drives HFS+  when you set them up ?
most drives are supplied formatted NTFS

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