Description
ARC-5020
(Hi-Speed eSATA/USB2.0/iSCSI/AoE)
The ARC-5020 RAID box offers a truly innovative eSATA(3.0Gbps)/USB2.0 solution for use with your PC workstation. Designed and leveraged with Areca existing high performance solution, this 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 failed drive rebuild is transparent to the host.
RAID Features
- 400MHz storage I/O processor
- 128MB on-board DDR2-400 SDRAM
- Unleash the power of 3.0Gbps and NCQ on the eSATA host port
- NVRAM for RAID configuration & transaction log
- Write-through or write-back cache support
- Redundant flash image for controller availability
- RAID level 0, 1, 10, 3, 5, Single Disk or JBOD
- Multiple RAID selection
- Up to 16 volumes per RAID subsystem (port multiplier SATA host: 4 volumes, without port multiplier SATA host: 1 volume, iSCSI/AoE host: 8 volumes and USB2.0 host: 8 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 two TB per volume set
- Support SMART, NCQ, and OOB staggered spin-up capable drives
Host Interface
- 3Gbps eSATA
- USB2.0 or iSCSI/AoE (iSCSI/AoE support from version 2.0)
Disk Interface
- 4 x SATA II 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 y 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 creation 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
Software Drivers
- OS Independent
