The Areca ARC-5020 RAID box
Offers a truly innovative eSATA(3.0Gbps)/USB2.0 solution for use with your PC and Mac 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.
Fast reliable data storage for the Video, Audio, Media editing professional.
Ideal storage solution for Grass Valley Edius and Apple Final Cut Pro editors on MAC or PC.
Link to pdf.
Drives Not Included.
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RAID Features |
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400MHz storage I/O processor |
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Unleash the power of 3.0Gbps and NCQ on the eSATA host port |
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NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log |
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Write-through or write-back cache support |
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Redundant flash image for controller availability |
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RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, Single Disk or JBOD |
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Multiple RAID selection |
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Up to 4 volumes (Target mode multiplier emulation) |
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Online array roaming |
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Online RAID level/stripe size migration |
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Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration
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Online dynamic volume set capacity expansion |
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Instant availability and background initialization |
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Automatic insertion/removal detection and rebuild |
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Greater than Two TB per volume set |
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Support SMART, NCQ, and OOB staggered spin-up capable
drives |
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Monitors/Indicators |
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Push Buttons and LCD Display Panel for setup and status
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Environment and drive failure indication through LCD, LED and alarm buzzer
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Keep silent and adequate air flow and cooling by intelligent cooling fan speed controller
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RAID Management |
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Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM via RS-232 and LAN port
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LCD Hot-Key supports one-step easy RAID configuration
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Firmware-embedded manager via RS-232 port
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Firmware-embedded Browser-based RAID manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via LAN port |
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Support RAID box’s API library for customer to write its own AP |
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Software Drivers |
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OS Independent |
The Areca ARC-5020 RAID Box will do around 140MB/s in RAID5 with a generic eSATA controler or if you add the HighPoint RocketRAID 2314 you can get upwards of 210MB/s in RAID5.
Call for a price on this option.
This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 13 October, 2009.
