Taipei, Taiwan, May 25, 2005 --Areca Technology Corporation, a leading provider of PCI-X, PCI-Express SATA ll RAID controllers with Intel RAID 6 inside, today announced that its PCI-X SATA ll RAID controller has featured with 24 port SATA ll connectors. ARC-1170 controller together with the existing 24-port enclosure available from chassis providers such as Advanced Industrial Computer, Chenbro, and Ci Designs, reducing one controller and parity disk.
With the explosion of data being stored the face of backup is rapidly changing. No longer can a single tape drive be relied upon to cope with the ever-increasing capacities of disk drives and drive sub-systems. Even more serious is the shrinking time windows within which to do the back-ups. But the rapidly falling price and steadily improving reliability of ATA, and now SATA (Serial ATA), disk drives have changed the dynamics of the backup market.
To address the unique requirements of the on demand world, Areca 24-port SATA ll RAID controller, replacing tape with disk for your front-line backups can boost speed, improve reliability and eliminate the delays in loading and searching a tape for the data you need. It is mostly used for secondary storage, where data is kept for a week or so for short-term recovery. The 24-port SATA ll RAID controller is designed for storage subsystem and supports up to twenty-four hot-swappable hard disk drives. It is included around the worlds leading technology Intel RAID 6 inside. This controller supports Intel RAID 6 inside function, which can be critical for increasing data availability by providing important disaster recovery function.
Normally, 24-port enclosure needs two 12-port SATA RAID controllers. User creates individual RAID set for each controller. The operating system stripe both of two controller’s raid sets. Two controllers occupy two PCI slot and have its private parity disk. ARC-1170 supports 24-port SATA ll RAID controller. User can create raid set using 24 disks. It only occupies one PCI-x slot and one set of parity disk. |
