Areca 5040 8-bay Hot Swap eSATA/FW800/USB3/iSCSI Tower DAS

Features

The eSATA port delivers in excess of 220 MB per second (MB/sec) sustained RAID 0 reads and over 210 MB/sec RAID 0 sequential writes. High transfer rates make ARC-5040 well suited for audio/video application especially the rapidly growing demand from the Mac Video Editing markets. The Intelligent cooling continuously adapts to environmental conditions by automatically controlling the speed of the cooling fans. This super silent design, optimizing balance between noise reduction and necessary cooling, help the resellers to offer the cost effective storage solution to the end customers.

Adapter Architecture

• 400MHz storage I/O processor
• NVRAM for events log & transaction log
• 128MB on-board cache memory
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Redundant flash image for subsystem availability
• RAID level 0, 1, 10, 1E, 3, 5, 6, Single Disk or JBOD
• Multiple RAID selection
• Up to 16 volumes per RAID subsystem (port multiplier SATA host: 8 volumes, FireWire 800 Host: 2 volumes, iSCSI/AoE Host: 16 volumes and USB3/USB2 Host: 16 volumes)
• Online array roaming
• Offline RAID set
• 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 2TB per volume set
• Support SMART, NCQ, and OOB staggered spin-up capable drives

Host Interface

• 3Gbps eSATA, FireWire 800, USB3 and USB 2.0
• iSCSI/AoE (will be available on February 2010)

Disk Interface

• 8 x SATA ll 3.0Gbps, hot swappable drive trays

Monitors/Notification

• 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 subsystem

RAID Management

• Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM via RS-232 and LAN port
• Firmware-embedded RAID manager via RS-232 port and LCD
• Firmware-embedded Browser-based RAID manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via LAN port
• Support Out-of-Band API library for customer to write its own AP

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