Description
ARC-8040 is DISCONTINUED
The ARC-8040 is the most complete 8-bay subsystem with RAID control capabilities. The ARC-8040 unleashes a truly innovative 6Gb/s SAS to SAS RAID solution for both PC and Mac. SAS 2.0 is designed for backward compatibility with SAS 1.0, twice speed data transfer 6Gb/s than previous available. The SAS 2.0 interface supports both 6Gb/s SAS disk drives for data-intensive applications and 6Gb/s SATA drives for low-cost bulk storage of reference data. The ARC-8040 supports flexibility interface configuration; one 4 lanes 6Gb/s SAS host with one 4 lanes 6Gb/s SAS expander or two 4 lanes 6Gb/s SAS host for easy expansion and performance. When expander port used with SAS 6Gb/s expander, the ARC-8040 can provide up to (122) devices through one or more 6Gb/s SAS JBODs, making it an ideal solution for enterprise-class storage applications that call for maximum configuration flexibility.
Adapter Architecture
RAID Features
Host Interface
6Gb SAS-to-SAS
Disk Interface
Monitors/Notification
RAID Management
Software Drivers
The ARC-8040 is the most complete 8-bay subsystem with RAID control capabilities. The ARC-8040 unleashes a truly innovative 6Gb/s SAS to SAS RAID solution for both PC and Mac. SAS 2.0 is designed for backward compatibility with SAS 1.0, twice speed data transfer 6Gb/s than previous available. The SAS 2.0 interface supports both 6Gb/s SAS disk drives for data-intensive applications and 6Gb/s SATA drives for low-cost bulk storage of reference data. The ARC-8040 supports flexibility interface configuration; one 4 lanes 6Gb/s SAS host with one 4 lanes 6Gb/s SAS expander or two 4 lanes 6Gb/s SAS host for easy expansion and performance. When expander port used with SAS 6Gb/s expander, the ARC-8040 can provide up to (122) devices through one or more 6Gb/s SAS JBODs, making it an ideal solution for enterprise-class storage applications that call for maximum configuration flexibility.
Adapter Architecture
- 800 MHz RAID-on-Chip for RAID core and SAS microcode
- 512MB on-board DDR2-800 SDRAM with ECC protection
- NVRAM for RAID event log & transaction log
- Write-through or write-back cache support
- Redundant flash image for adapter availability
- Real time clock support
- Battery Backup Module ready (Option)
RAID Features
- RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
- Multiple RAID selection
- Online array roaming
- Offline RAID set
- Online RAID level/stripe size migration
- Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
- Online volume set growth
- Instant availability and background initialization
- Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuilding
- Support global and dedicated hot spare
- Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
- Greater than 2TB per disk drive
- Disk scrubbing/ array verify scheduling for automatic repair of all configured RAID sets
- Login record in the event log with IP address and service (http, telnet and serial)
- Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
- Support NTP protocol to synchronize RAID controller clock over the on-board LAN port
- Max 122 devices
- Max 128 LUNs (volume set) per controller
Host Interface
6Gb SAS-to-SAS
- One (port0) or two (port0 & port1) external SFF-8088 6Gb/s SAS ports-600MB/sec per PHY link
Disk Interface
- Up to 8 x 6Gb/s internal port
- Up to 122 devices using SAS expanders (one external SFF-8088 connector port1)
- Up to 6Gb/s per port
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 controller
- Subsystem management ready (SES-2)
RAID Management
- Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
- Firmware-embedded manager via RS-232 port and LCD
- Firmware-embedded browser-based RAID manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via 1Gb/s LAN port
- API library for customer to write its own monitor utility
- SAP management feature to easily manage multiple RAID units in the
Software Drivers
- OS Independent