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Hardware distributor, FortuneTec, has formed a new partnership with RAID vendor, Areca....
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RAID Controller HBA Cards
HighPoint RAID Controller
Product Code: Your other RAID choice
HighPoint 8 ports SATA/SAS RAID Card
Price: $1,036.00 (Incl GST)
Product Code: RocketRAID 4322
Maintenance and Management Settings
RAID Monitoring Tools
Online capacity expansion (OCE) and Online RAID level migration (ORLM)
RAID Array Roaming
Unplug/Remove RAID array
Hot key (ctrl-h) boot-up RAID manager via BIOS
Firmware update while running the Operating System
Verify RAID Array for Bad Sectors and Parity Check
Task Scheduler
Automatic RAID rebuild
Automatic drive (insert / removal) detection
Hot Spare Disk
Staggered Drive Spinup
Rebuild Priority (Low - Highest)
Spin Down Idle Mode
Hot Swap and Hot plug
Bad sector repair and remapping to reduce dropped drives
Multiple RAID array
Multiple Logical Drive
64bit LBA support greater than 2TB per volume
SMTP for email notification
Alarm / Buzzer alerts for drive failure
SES-2 enclosure management (Failed, SMART (SHI))
Enclosure management support I2C
Hard Drive LED indicators (Activity and Failed)
SHI (Storage Health Inspector – Drive analysis from S.M.A.R.T)
Product Code: Ultra Performance from 4 to 128 bays SAS, SATA
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 PCI, SCSI, and Fiber Disk Array Controllers support RAID levels 0, 1,10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD. It also produces its own custom ASIC, a high-speed IDE controller, and a 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
8-port PCIe SAS RAID Adpaters
Price: $1,388.00 (Incl GST)
Product Code: ARC-1680X
Areca high-performance ARC-1680 series PCIe to SAS RAID host controller can provide up to (128) SAS/SATA ll peripheral devices using SAS expanders. The controllers are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven external RAID adapter and same device drivers with widely used SATA RAID controller. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming applications.
12 internal ports and 1 external ports PCIe SAS RAID Adpaters
Price: $1,689.00 (Incl GST)
Product Code: ARC-1680ix-12
Areca high-performance ARC-1680ix-12 series PCIe to SAS RAID host controller can provide up to (128) SAS/SATA ll peripheral devices using SAS expanders. The controllers are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven external RAID adapter and same device drivers with widely used SATA RAID controller. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming applications.
16 internal ports and 1 external ports PCIe SAS RAID Adpaters
Price: $2,100.00 (Incl GST)
Product Code: ARC-1680ix-16
Areca high-performance ARC-1680ix-16 series PCIe to SAS RAID host controller can provide up to (128) SAS/SATA ll peripheral devices using SAS expanders. The controllers are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven external RAID adapter and same device drivers with widely used SATA RAID controller. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming applications.
24 internal ports and 1 external ports PCIe SAS RAID Adpaters
Price: $2,660.00 (Incl GST)
Product Code: ARC-1680ix-24
Areca high-performance ARC-1680ix-24 series PCIe to SAS RAID host controller can provide up to (128) SAS/SATA ll peripheral devices using SAS expanders. The controllers are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven external RAID adapter and same device drivers with widely used SATA RAID controller. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming applications.
Areca offers the most complete line of SAS host adapters. 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 SFF8088, one internal x4 SFF8087 and two external x4 SFF8088/four internal x4 SFF8087 miniSAS connectors.
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Areca offers the most complete line of SAS host adapters. 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 SFF8088, one internal x4 SFF8087 and two external x4 SFF8088/four internal x4 SFF8087 miniSAS connectors.