Taipei, Taiwan, February 19 , 2009-- Areca Technology Corporation, a leading provider of internal RAID adapters and external RAID controllers, today announced the availability of a new series SAS host adapter. The host adapter card enables large-scale direct attach storage (DAS) arrays through external 3Gb/s ports, driving up to 128 end-point devices for Min SAS connector or driving up to 16 SATA devices for eSATA connector. The host bus adapter drives external server storage RAID and non-RAID enclosures with unprecedented throughput by connecting a four-lane 2.5 Gb/s PCI Express bus with option one external x4 SFF-8088, one internal x4 SFF-8087 and two external x4 SFF-8088/four internal x4 SFF-8087 miniSAS connectors.

Areca SAS host adapters are able to connect to both SATA and SAS hard disk drives, allowing for tiered storage that optimizes costs and performance. SAS drives are optimal when speed and reliability are of the utmost concern, while SATA drives are appropriate when capacity and cost are more important. Areca offers a diverse selection of SAS host adapter including a wide variety of internal and external connector configurations to support any application, from high-performance workstations to large-scale DAS arrays at low cost concerns. System integrators can use the Areca host adapter to build large-scale storage array infrastructures that support both SAS and SATA devices. The cost savings can be felt immedi­ately when using the ARC-1300 to develop a tiered storage solution with hard disk drives (HDDs), tape drives, tape autoloaders, solid state drives (SSDs) and removable media (DAS/JBOD).

Areca ARC-1300 series support broad operating system including Windows® 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux (Open Source), SuSE Linux, FreeBSD, Mac and Solaris along with enclosure management features such as LED header, and SES2/SGPIO (ARC-1300ix-16) function. All OS drivers are backed by extensive testing and validation to ensure optimum system perfor­mance. Those products and technology are based on extensive testing and validation process; leverage Areca engineer more than fifteen years SCSI host adapter experience.