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Areca Releases 8-bay 6Gb/s SAS to SAS Compact RAID Subsystem

Computex Taipei -June 1, 2010 -- Areca Technology Corporation (ARECA), a leading provider of internal, external and PCI-X/PCIe SAS or SATA ll RAID controllers with RAID 6 inside, today announced the ARC-8040 a8-bay6Gb/s SAS to SAS compact RAID subsystem. The ARC-8040 is a truly innovative 6Gb/s SAS to SAS RAID 8-bay subsystem with RAID control capabilities. 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 6Gb/s host interfaces make ARC-8040 RAID subsystem well suited for professionals who need large capacity and exceptional performance with connectivity.The ARC-8040 incorporates onboard high performance 800MHz RAID-on-Chip storage processor and on-board 512MB DDR2-800 SDRAM memory to deliver true hardware RAID. Applications demand for higher computing power, networking bandwidth and support for virtualization applications are driving RAID subsystem for improved architecture internal bus interface and RAID performance.The powerful LSI’s LSISAS2116 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controllerintegrated 16 x 6Gb/s SAS ports on chip delivers high performance for NAS, server RAID solutions, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems, streaming and cloud computing applications.

Designed and leveraged with Areca’s existing high performance solution, this controller delivers high-capacity at the best of cost/ performance value. It supports the hardware RAID 6 engine to allow two HDDs failures without impact the existing data and performance. Its high data availability and protection derives from many advanced RAID features. The ARC-8040 RAID subsystem allows easy scalability from JBOD to RAID. It can be configured to RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD. With innovative new RAID-on-Chip 6Gb/s SAS feature and support for SATA, SAS and SSDs, the ARC-8040 provides small- to mid-sized enterprises with superior levels of RAID performance and scalability for external storage.

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.

About Areca Technology Corporation

Areca Technology Corporation designs and manufactures storage products for virtually all areas of the storage market including DAS, NAS, and SAN. All PCIe, SAS and Fiber Disk Array Controllers support RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD. Areca is firstly company that produces its own custom RAID 6 engine on their controllers to achieve high data throughput and availability. Areca has completely committed its highly skilled research and development effort to disk array technologies that yield the fastest performance, best reliability, and lower cost points than competitive disk array solutions. Areca Technology is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. http://www.areca.com.tw

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