Storage

Areca’s sophisticated storage devices—available in desktop or rackmount enclosures—support USB 2.0, USB 3.2 Gen1, USB 3.2 Gen2, and Thunderbolt 5 via a single port. These high-speed RAID systems are available with 4, 6, 8, 12, or 24 drive bays.
As an operating system-independent storage system, installation is possible without additional software or drivers. To ensure the necessary security of the data stored on it, it supports RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk, and JBOD (the 4-bay models do not include RAID levels 30, 50, or 60). The model presented here features built-in SAS-SATA drive ports. Variants with an “N” suffix in the model name also include an NVMe interface. These compact storage devices are ideal wherever large amounts of data need to be quickly accessible at individual workstations. This applies particularly to the media industry, for example in audio or video editing as well as in photo compositing. Since there must be no disruptive noise in these environments, Areca engineers equipped the ARC-8050T5U with intelligent cooling. It continuously adapts to environmental conditions by automatically regulating the speed of the brushless fan.

The entry-level Areca RAID controller is equipped with integrated storage processors that enable true hardware RAID. It has its own local RAID processor and a dedicated onboard cache to handle all RAID processing on a hardware basis.

The NVMe RAID adapter also has a powerful 1066 MHz memory processor, DDR3-1066 memory architecture and two PCIe 2.0 x1 M.2 ports (suitable for 2280 and 22110 SSDs). It therefore supports 512 MB DDR3-1066 SDRAM memory as standard. As a 2-port M.2 NVMe RAID solution for desktop servers and workstations, the ARC-1203-2N offers fully functional hardware RAID. The ability of hardware RAID controllers to recover an array in the event of a hard drive failure is far superior to that of software RAID controllers.

The ARC-1203-2i model from Areca provides two SATA III ports for the PCIe bus (2.0 x1). The RAID controller offers high performance and ensures maximum protection with Fault Tolerance in Data Mirroring. With its two 6 Gbps SATA ports, the budget RAID adapter forms an entry-level solution with RAID security for desktop and workstations as well as entry-level servers.

Areca's ARC-1203-4i supports up to four SATA III drives as a PCIe-to-SATA RAID controller. The ARC-1203 series can be easily integrated into a variety of hardware and software platforms. This makes the RAID controllers ideal for both cost-effective and high-performance network-attached storage (NAS) systems that require high security and performance.

Areca's ARC-1203-8i supports up to eight SATA III drives as a PCIe-to-SATA RAID controller. The ARC-1203 series can be easily integrated into a variety of hardware and software platforms. This makes the RAID controllers ideal for both cost-effective and high-performance network-attached storage (NAS) systems that require high security and performance.

SAS RAID controllers from Areca support the high-performance protection of up to four SAS/SATA drives at 6 Gbit/s. They have the same kernel as the proven external RAID controllers from the same company. They are ideally used as file servers, web servers, supercomputers, NAS, near-line backup, streaming, application servers (audio, video) and in security-relevant systems.

Areca's high-performance ARC-1216-4i 12 Gbit/s SAS RAID controllers support up to four internal SAS/SATA disks.The PCIe 3.0 host RAID controllers provide a cost-effective solution for up to four SAS peripherals. They are backward compatible with 6 Gbit/s and 3 Gbit/s SAS/SATA hard drives. With 1GB of onboard DDR3-1600 SDRAM, the ARC-12x6 series offsets lush cache memory that can be optionally protected from power failures via BBM.