Areca ARC5040 8-bay RAID

The Areca ARC-5040 8-Bay eSATA/Firewire800/iSCSI/AoE/USB2.0 RAID System is the most complete 8-bay 3.0 Gbps SATA drive solution with RAID control capabilities and support for up to 16 multiple volumes.

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The ARC-5040 is the most 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, USB3.0, 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.

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, USB3.0 Host: 8 volumes, FireWire 800 Host: 2 volumes, iSCSI/AoE Host: 16 volumes and USB2.0 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, USB3.0 and FireWire 800
	iSCSI/AoE/USB2.0

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