Areca 4-bay USB / eSATA RAID Unit
Designed and leveraged with Areca existing high performance solutions, ARC-5020 RAID box delivers high-capacity performance at the best of cost/performance value. With RAID box technology, it allows one HDD failure without impact on the existing data and the failed drive rebuild is transparent to the host.
ARC-5020 (Hi-Speed eSATA & USB2.0)
RAID Features
- 400MHz storage I/O processor
- Unleash the power of 3.0Gbps and NCQ on the eSATA host port
- NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
- Write-through or write-back cache support
- Redundant flash image for controller availability
- RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, Single Disk or JBOD
- Multiple RAID selection
- Up to 4 volumes (Target mode multiplier emulation)
- Online array roaming
- Online RAID level/stripe size migration
- Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
- Online dynamic volume set capacity expansion
- Instant availability and background initialization
- Automatic insertion/removal detection and rebuild
- Greater than Two TB per volume set
- Support SMART, NCQ, and OOB staggered spin-up capable drives
Monitors/Indicators
- Push Buttons and LCD Display Panel for setup and status
- Environment and drive failure indication through LCD, LED and alarm buzzer
- Keep silent and adequate air flow and cooling by intelligent cooling fan speed controller
RAID Management
- Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM via RS-232 and LAN port
- LCD Hot-Key supports one-step easy RAID configuration
- Firmware-embedded manager via RS-232 port
- Firmware-embedded Browser-based RAID manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via LAN port
- Support RAID box’s API library for customer to write its own AP
Software Drivers
- OS Independent
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