Description
ARC-8050
ARC-8050 is the most complete 6Gb/s SAS 8-bay Thunderbolt box with RAID control capabilities solution for both PC and Mac. Thunderbolt host interface make ARC-8050 RAID box well suited for SOHO group professional who work at home and or in the office. Thunderbolt technology developed for high speed data transfers. The data transfer rate at the speed of 10Gb per second. Thunderbolt port is shared by multiple devices and can transfer data equally distribute to all connected devices. The ARC-8050 incorporated on-board high performance dual core 800Mhz ROC storage processor and with 1GB DDR3-1333 SDRAM memory on-board to deliver true high performance hardware RAID for the demands of serious HD media creators needs. For example, the benefit for video editor by using ARC-8050 to unleash their professional creativity work in real-time, with the high-bandwidth allow large amount of audio and video capture/mixing devices transferred faster with low latency and high-accurate synchronization at 10Gb/s. Data can be backed up and restored more quickly, so there’s less waiting for achieved content to transfer or copy.
Thunderbolt technology is a revolutionary high-speed, dual protocol I/O technology designed for performance, simplicity and flexibility. Thunderbolt I/O technology lets you move data between high-resolution displays and high-performance data devices on a single, compact port. Both data and display signals can be sent and received at the same time through dual 10 Gbps channels. A single cable attached to one of the ports provides 2 channels able to achieve the 10 Gbps speeds flowing both ways simultaneously. A single Thunderbolt port supports hubs as well as a daisy chain of up to seven Thunderbolt devices. To improve bandwidth transmission, Thunderbolt has implemented two duplex (PCIe and DisplayPort) channels into the controller and each channel can provide full bi-directional performance
Controller Architecture
- 800 MHz Dual core ROC for RAID core and SAS microcode
- 1GB on-board DDR3-1333 SDRAM with ECC protection
- Write-through or write-back cache support
- Support 8 internal 6Gb/s SAS ports
- Multi-RAID storage support for large storage requirements
- Support EFI BIOS for bootable from RAID storage volume
- NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
- Redundant flash image for adapter availability
- Battery Backup Module ready (Option)
RAID Features
- RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
- Multiple RAID selection
- Online array roaming
- Online RAID level/stripe size migration
- Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
- Online volume set growth
- Support global hot spare and local hot spare
- Instant availability and background initialization
- Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuilding
- Disk scrubbing/ array verify scheduling for automatic repair of all configured RAID sets
- Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
- Support NTP protocol to synchronize RAID controller clock over the on-board LAN port
Monitors/Notification
- Environment and drive failure indication through LCD, LED and alarm buzzer
- Keep silent and adequate air flow and cooling by intelligent cooling fan speed controller
- Enclosure management ready
Drive Support
- Up to 8 x 6Gb/s SAS/SATA/SSD
Host Connection
- Two Thunderbolt Channels- dual 10 Gbps channel per channel
- Simultaneous bi-directional, 10 Gbps transfers over a single cable
- Dual-protocol support (PCI Express and DisplayPort)
- Compatible with existing DisplayPort devices
- Daisy-chaining devices
RAID Management
- Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
- Firmware-embedded RAID manager via McBIOS Setup and LCD
- Firmware-embedded browser-based RAID manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via out-of-band 10/100Mbit LAN port or in-band Archttp utility
- API library for customer to combine GUI with its own monitor utility
- Command Line Interface
Software Drivers
- Mac OS X 10.6.x/10.7.x/10.8.x
- Windows 7 Storport (i368/x86_64)
