Areca Launches 8-Bay Tower 6Gb SAS JBOD

Areca Technology Corporation announced the availability of a new ARC-4036 6Gb/s SAS compact tower JBOD. LSI customers use the ARC-4036 JBOD for ARC-8040 RAID subsystem to provide a affordable, highly scalable, high-performance storage solution that enables our customers to expand capacity beyond the server to meet growing data requirements.

The ARC-4036 is based on 6Gb/s SAS technology and powered by the LSI SAS2x28 6Gb/s SAS expander controller chip. It can support 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SAS or SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs). Each ARC-4036 compact tower JBOS connects to the host system through two 4-lanes SAS connectors (Host In) and two 4-lanes SAS connectors (Exp Out) to the next SAS-to-SAS JBOD enclosure. It is used to enhance the ARC-8040 RAID subsystem by allowing support for more than 8 internal hard disk drives.

ARC-4036 JBOD is qualified for using with ARC-1880 6Gb/s SAS RAID adapters ARC-8040 RAID subsystem and ARC-1320 SAS host adapters with external ports, providing easy connectivity to servers for cost-effective storage expansion and scalability. It provides fault-tolerant links across separate SAS domains. The ARC-4036 board can be connected into two host ports with those RAID or Host adapter ports which directly come from the SAS controller chip for better performance application.

The ARC-4036 firmware and EPLD has implemented the SES-2 protocol and disk activity map to the individual fault/activity status indicator on the backplanes. It has implemented autonomous chassis management of power supply status, two fan monitor/speed control through the SES-2 protocol.In data center environments, identifying issues with drives and environments are crucial. The hardware monitor can monitor system voltage and temperature. The warning message will be shown in alarm buzzer and respect LED.