Areca ARC-5040

Areca Technology Corporation announced that its 8-bay 3Gbps eSATA, FireWire 800, iSCSI/AoE and USB2.0 multiple hosts compact RAID subsystem.

The ARC-5040
is a complete 8-bay 3.0 Gbps SATA drive subsystem with RAID control
capabilities. The ARC-5040 unleashes a truly innovative multiple hosts
(with 3.0Gbps eSATA, FireWire 800, iSCSI/AoE and USB2.0) solution for
both PC and Mac. 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.

The ARC-5040 supports multiple host interfaces; eSATA, FireWire 800,
iSCSI/AoE or UBS2.0 that can work currently at the same time without
any limitation. With port multiplier SATA host, eSATA (3.0Gbps) host
channel can support multiple volumes (up to 8). FireWire 800 can
support up to 2 volumes. iSCSI/AoE and USB2.0 host channels can also
support up to 16 volumes. iSCSI/AoE host will be available on Feb-2010.
Up to 16 volumes can be created on each ARC-5040 RAID subsystem.
Multiple host interfaces make ARC-5040 RAID subsystem well suited for
professionals who need large capacity and exceptional performance with
connectivity.

The ARC-5040 incorporates onboard high performance 400MHz storage
processors and on-board 128MB DDR2-400 SDRAM memory to deliver true
hardware RAID. It can be configured to RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 1E, 3, 5, 6, Single Disk or JBOD.
The subsystem unit is the most cost-effective SATA disk drive RAID
subsystem with completely integrated high-performance and
data-protection capabilities, which meet the performance and features
of a midrange storage product at an entry-level price.

Configuration and monitoring can be managed either through the LCD
control panel, RS232 port or Ethernet port. The firmware also contains
an embedded terminal emulation via the RS-232 port. The
firmware-embedded Web Browser-based RAID manager allows local or remote
to access it from any standard internet browser via a LAN port. The
RAID subsystem also supports API library for customer to write its own
monitor utility.