Areca (company)
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Areca Technology Corporation is a company based in Taipei
, Taiwan
. They manufacture RAID
controllers. Areca developed their own custom ASIC
, a RAID 6 engine for use on their own controllers. However, recent generations of products have abandoned this custom ASIC in favor of Intel's IOP processors for RAID functionalities. Areca's products include DAS, NAS
, and SAN
controllers. All PCI
, SCSI
, and Fibre Channel
disk array controllers support RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 and JBOD.
Taipei
Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
. They manufacture RAID
RAID
RAID is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit...
controllers. Areca developed their own custom ASIC
Application-specific integrated circuit
An application-specific integrated circuit is an integrated circuit customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use. For example, a chip designed solely to run a cell phone is an ASIC...
, a RAID 6 engine for use on their own controllers. However, recent generations of products have abandoned this custom ASIC in favor of Intel's IOP processors for RAID functionalities. Areca's products include DAS, NAS
Network-attached storage
Network-attached storage is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to heterogeneous clients. NAS not only operates as a file server, but is specialized for this task either by its hardware, software, or configuration of those elements...
, and SAN
Storage area network
A storage area network is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. SANs are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes, accessible to servers so that the devices appear like locally attached devices...
controllers. All PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect
Conventional PCI is a computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer...
, SCSI
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices. The SCSI standards define commands, protocols, and electrical and optical interfaces. SCSI is most commonly used for hard disks and tape drives, but it...
, and Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
disk array controllers support RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 and JBOD.