Areca Technology Corporation (ARECA), a leading innovator in storage solutions, has announced a groundbreaking update to its RAID adapter firmware. Version 1.70 introduces NVMe drive emulation, marking a significant leap forward in storage technology integration and ease of use.
Areca's RAID Software Suite has been expanded to fully support both legacy and NVMe modes, offering a comprehensive toolkit for system administrators and IT professionals:
In addition to the Software Suite, web GUI and CLI utility are also provided for users to configure, deploy, update, and monitor Areca's RAID adapters without deploying an agent.
** In-band ArcHttp and CLI utility are not supported under NVMe mode for macOS
This firmware update represents Areca's commitment to providing cutting-edge storage solutions that combine performance, flexibility, and ease of use. By embracing native NVMe driver support, Areca is ensuring that its RAID adapters remain at the forefront of storage technology, offering customers unparalleled compatibility and efficiency in their data management infrastructure.
Areca Technology Corporation (ARECA), a leading provider of internal RAID adapter, external RAID controller and Thunderbolt RAID storage, today announced the general availability and shipping of the cost-effective tri-mode hardware RAID adapters :ARC-1203-2N to offer 2 X M.2 slots.
An enterprise storages need to ensure data integrity in the event of power lose and system crash. The Power Lose Protection (PLP) is hardware and firmware solution on the ARC-1203-2N to ensure that NVMe SSD integrity is maintained when a power loss event occurs.
On-board Supercapacitor module keeps M.2 fault LEDs status to easy identify failed drive when ARC-1203-2N cached RAID adapter removes from system PCI-e slot.
The ARC-1203-2N Cached RAID adapter firmware security function together with Self Encryption Drives (SED) secures data from un- authorized access. Protection is achieved by SED NVMe drive that automatically and continuously encrypts data on the drive without any user interaction.
Areca Technology Corporation (ARECA), a leading provider of internal, external and Thunderbolt RAID storage, announced today that PCIe 4.0 hosts interfaces ARC-1886 series 8/16-ports tri-mode RAID adapters, now supporting LTO - Tape drives.
In response to requests from our customers, supporting RAID function and LTO drives multi-function in a single unit is now available. The RAID adapters automatically set tape devices as pass-through mode, which allows LTO drives to connect over direct-attached SAS ports for backups plus other additional ports for SAS/SATA/NVMe RAID function with fast storage.
For the RAID product line without supporting LTO tape drives, it requires a second HBA. Areca now enables LTO tape drive support in the ARC-1886 for fitting New Mac Pro and also other IT servers in connection with SAS/SATA/NVMe devices and LTO simultaneous storages in one RAID controller.
Areca Technology Corporation (ARECA), a leading provider of internal RAID adapter, external RAID controller and Thunderbolt RAID storage, today announced the general availability and shipping of the cost-effective tri-mode hardware RAID adapters :ARC-1686-8I/8X.
The ARC-1686-8I/8X RAID adapters raise the standard to higher performance levels with several enhancements including new high performance 1.6GHz dual core ROC processor, 12Gb/s SAS/SATA/PCIe Gen4 (NVMe) tri-mode storage and high performance PCIe 4.0 interface bus interconnection. The ARC-1686-8I/8X RAID adapters are compatible with existing PCI Express SFF-8639 Module (U.2) backplanes allowing users to boost performance for increasing bandwidth requirements.
Designed and leveraged with Areca’s existing high performance RAID solution, ARC-1686-8I/8X provides superior levels performance and enterprise level data protection for the most demanding next-generation server and storage environments. It supports the hardware RAID levels 0, 1 (Simple/Multi Mirroring), 10, Single Disk (Single/Dual/Triple) or JBOD. The on-board ROC incorporates advanced security through hardware secure boot. Hardware secure boot helps ensure that the firmware code running on ARC-1686-8I/8X hardware platforms is authentic and unmodified.
Areca cost-effective RAID controllers incorporate onboard ROC processors to deliver true hardware RAID. The ability of hardware RAID controllers to rebuild an array in the event of a drive failure is superior to what software RAID controllers offer. ARC-1686 enables the addition of direct attached SAS tape to store the growing amount of digital data being generated and stored in local or cloud storage to provide better margins over HDD technology.
The ARC-1686 RAID adapter supports broad operating system which is same as our ARC-1886 series tri-mode RAID adapter. The McBIOS RAID is a BIOS based utility used to simplify configure and manage RAID adapter via hot key at M/B BIOS boot-up screen. Without having to deploy an agent, you can also configure, deploy, update, and monitor the ARC-1686, via the GUI or through CLI utility. Customers can launch the firmware browser-based McRAID GUI through the ArcHttp proxy server. Additionally, Areca ArcSAP storage manager allows the user to scan multiple RAID units in the network and perform GUI management operations across multiple RAID units.
Areca Technology Corporation (ARECA) today launches the entry level NVMe hardware RAID adapters: ARC-1686 to offer 2/4/6 X M.2 slots along with many advanced features.
This ARC-1686-xNOD series is based on Broadcom SAS3908/ SAS3916 x8 Raid on Chip (ROC). It raised the standard to high performance level by adopted 1.6GHz dual core ROC processor, outstanding PCIe 4.0 x 8 host interface and 12Gb/s SAS/SATA/NVMe devices bus interconnection. Damage in a software RAID is considered as the consumption of massive computation and memory bandwidth on the host.
The ARC-1686 supports both 2280 and 22110 form factor NVMe drives and combines them on a tri-mode hardware RAID adapter to maximize I/O performance for database applications and streaming digital media environments. With a single ARC-1686-xNOD RAID adapter system integrators can take full advantages of 2/4/6 x PCIe Gen 4.0 M.2 x2/x4 NVMe drives or 6Gb/s M.2 SATA SSD drives support RAID level 0, 1(Simple/ Multi mirroring), single disk(Single/Dual/Triple) or JBOD.
An enterprise storages need to ensure data integrity in the event of power lose and system crash. The Power Lose Protection (PLP) is hardware and firmware solution on the ARC-1686-xNOD to ensure that NVMe SSD integrity is maintained when a power loss event occurs.
On-board Supercapacitor module keeps M.2 fault LEDs status to easy identify failed drive when ARC-1686-xNOD RAID adapter removes from system PCI-e slot.
The Power Disable Feature is asserted by the controller ROC to shut off 3.3 V power to the M.2 slot. To complete M.2 NVMe drive to be similar specification as SATA drive by send an electricity power cycle to NVMe drive as a testing function automatically to make a judgment that drive can be indeed failed or re-used. Need no to send a technician to do “power down” and “power on” manually. This feature is similar as Power disable feature (PD) – disk cold boot management feature which introduced SATA 3.3 – February 2 2016.
The ARC-1686-xNOD RAID adapter firmware security function together with Self Encryption Drives (SED) secures data from un-authorized access. Protection is achieved by SED NVMe drive that automatically and continuously encrypts data on the drive without any user interaction.