Areca 8042-12 12-bays 12Gb/s SAS to SAS Desktop RAID Subsystem

The ARC-8042-12 SAS to SAS desktop RAID subsystem raises the standard to higher performance levels with several enhancements including high performance 1.2GHz dual core ROC processor, a DDR3-1866 memory architecture and 12Gb/s SAS technology. The ARC-8042-12 includes 2GB DDR3-1866 and ECC SDRAM. The ARC-8042-12 SAS to SAS desktop RAID subsystem provides 12Gb/s SAS host interface link to the host board on the server system. This RAID controller utilizes the same RAID kernel that has been field-proven in existing internal/external SATA/SAS RAID controller products, allowing to bring stable and reliable SAS RAID external subsystem. The ARC-8042-12 provides external storage chassis capable of accommodating up to 12 12.0-Gb/s Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) drives or 6.0-Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA) drives.

Features:

• Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10(1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID 100)
• Configurable stripe size up to 1024KB
• Automatic drive failover and detection and rebuild using multiple Global, Dedicated or Enclosure hot- spare drives
• Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
• SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support
• SED (Self-encrypting drives) function support
• Support for native 4K and 512 byte sector devices
• Support HDD firmware update
• Hot-swap and redundant components for increasing availability