Areca Technology Corp. established in 1999 is one of a few major RAID Adapters & SAS HBAs makers (true-makers) in the world today (excluding those Re-branded Names but OEMed from the original maker). Areca engineer’s team has over 30 years of disk array relative firmware/BIOS, software application, device drivers and ASIC technology. Areca has completely committed its entire research and development effort to disk array technologies that yield fastest performance, best reliability, and lower cost points than competitive disk array solutions.

Areca offers a full line of RAID & Storage products: from PCIe SATA RAID, SAS HBA, SAS RAID Adapters to External RAID modules, Thunderbolt , USB 3.1 Gen 2 and complete RAID Systems, even a FC Gateway / Bridge for SAN RAID connectivity; and it has the broadest OS supports: Windows, Linux, BSD/FreeBSD, XenServer, illumos, unRAID, FreeNAS, NAS4Free, Solaris 10/11, and Mac OS X 10.5.x or Higher. From Areca’s product list, you can always find some things that you’re your budget/feature/performance requirements.

Storage

Thunderbolt Solution – RAID

ARC-8050T3U series

(Thunderbolt™ 3 / USB 3.2 Gen 2 to 12Gb/s SAS RAID Storage)

ARC-8050T3U-4

ARC-8050T3U-6

ARC-8050T3U-8

ARC-8050T3U-12

Highlights

Thunderbolt™ 3 / USB 3.2 Gen 2 to 12Gb/s SAS RAID Storage

The ARC-8050T3U series are equipped with dual Thunderbolt 3 ports for connecting to any Thunderbolt 3-enabled host and offers an additional Thunderbolt 3 port for daisy-chaining other peripherals, while also supplying power for quick notebook charging. The ARC-8050T3U also sports a full sized DisplayPort 1.4 video output on its rear, allowing for a quick and easy 8K 30Hz display setup.

If an ARC-8050T3U is plugged in a USB-C computer port, a USB device controller inside the ARC-8050T3U-enabled system is activated, and the inside USB device controller drives USB (2.0, USB 3.2 Gen 1, or USB 3.2 Gen 2) signals to the USB-C port. In this condition, the ARC-8050T3U Thunderbolt 3 port behaves exactly like a typical USB-C 3.2 Gen 2-enabled connector.

Thunderbolt and USB Protocol in ONE RAID Storage Thunderbolt 3 Port

The existed Thunderbolt 3 port on the RAID storage does not support USB-C computer port compatibility mode. Areca newest ARC-8050T3U Thunderbolt 3 port supports both Thunderbolt 3 and USB protocol that allows USB-only computer user and Thunderbolt computer user to access same storage seamlessly.

Ultrafast Transfer Speed

Unprecedented Performance

ARC-8050T3U 6/8/12-bays RAID storage is built to deliver unprecedented performance, using only carefully, best-in-class components. These include the dual core ROC, PCIe Gen3 x8, 12Gb/s SAS, on-board cache SDRAM with ECC protection and the latest Thunderbolt3-encbled USB-C ports up to 40Gbps, dual 4K UHD external displays.

Powerful Broadcom 12G SAS Engine

ARC-8050T3U 6/8/12-bays RAID storage integrate the latest Broadcom 12Gb/s dual core SAS Raid-on-Chip to give you the maximum SAS and SATA bandwidth and protection you need to tackle even the hardest challenging tasks easily.

True Hardware RAID Controller

At the heart of ARC-8050T3U 6/8/12-bays RAID storage is the incredibly powerful dual-core Broadcom ROC, giving effortless performance as desirable. It delivers true hardware RAID function without sharing the CPU computing power on the host system and also eases off CPU loading as compared to software RAID and when rebuilding an array in the event of a drive failure.
ARC-8050T3U-6/6M/8/12
ARC-8050T3U-12E

ARC-8050T3 series

(Thunderbolt™ 3 to 12Gb/s SAS RAID Storage)

ARC-8050T3-8

ARC-8050T3-12

Highlights

Thunderbolt™ 3 to 12Gb/s SAS RAID Storage

ARC-8050T3 is the most complete 12Gb/s SAS 4/6(M)/6/8/12-bay Thunderbolt™ 3 desktop SAS/SATA RAID storage with RAID control capabilities solution for both PC and Mac. ARC-8050T3 incorporated on-board RAID-On-Chip and ECC SDRAM memory to deliver true high performance hardware RAID protection against drive failure. This combination helps to provide a high performance storage device perfect for the video editor working with Real time multi-stream HD and 4K workflows.

Thunderbolt™ 3 brings Thunderbolt to USB-C at speeds up to 40 Gbps, creating one compact port that does it all – delivering the fastest, most versatile connection to any dock, display, or data device. ARC-8050T3 is equipped with dual Thunderbolt 3 ports for connecting to any Thunderbolt 3-enabled host and offers an additional Thunderbolt 3 port for daisy-chaining other peripherals. The Thunderbolt daisy-chaining allows connection of up to six devices, so customers can connect ARC-8050T3 for massive amounts of video storage with a single Thunderbolt connection to their host computer.

ARC-8050T3 Rackmount

(12/16/24-bays Thunderbolt™ 3 RAID Storage)

ARC-8050T3-12R

ARC-8050T3-16R

ARC-8050T3-24R

Highlights

12/16/24-bays Thunderbolt™ 3 RAID Storage

ARC-8050T3 rackmount is the 12/16/24-bay Thunderbolt 3 rackmount SAS/SATA RAID storage with RAID control capabilities solution for both PC and Mac. ARC-8050T3 rackmount incorporated on-board 1.2GHz dual core ROC and 2GB DDR3-1866 ECC SDRAM memory to deliver true high performance hardware RAID protection against drive failure.This combination helps to provide a high performance storage device perfect for the video editor working with Real time multi-stream HD and 4K workflows.

Thunderbolt™ 3 brings Thunderbolt to USB-C at speeds up to 40 Gbps, creating one compact port that does it all – delivering the fastest, most versatile connection to any dock, display, or data device. ARC-8050T3 rackmount is equipped with dual Thunderbolt 3 ports for connecting to any Thunderbolt 3-enabled host and offers an additional Thunderbolt 3 port for daisy-chaining other peripherals, while also supplying power for quick notebook charging. The Thunderbolt daisy-chaining allows connection of up to six devices, so customers can connect ARC-8050T3 rackmount for massive amounts of video storage with a single Thunderbolt connection to their host computer.

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