Introduction; Specification - ACT ARS5050I Quick Installation Manual

1.1.1 Introduction

ACT-ARS5050 is specifically for personal video/audio, editing storage and DVR Raid
storage applications. It allows easy scalability from JBOD to RAID, It can be
configured to RAID levels 0,1,10,3,5 and JBOD. The RAID function allows one HDD
failure without impact on the existing data and failed drive Data can be reconstructed
from the remaining data and parity drives. RAID configuration and monitoring can be
done through the LCM front control panel or UTran RAID manager utility.
For ACT-ARS5050I,that is a internal platform. The RAID subsystem controller is
designed to fit in a three 5.25〞half-heigh drive bay for easy built-in the pc server.
For ACT-ARS5050 is a RAID tower platform；For ACT-ARS5050R is a RAID
Rackmount platform. It features five 3.5inch SATAII disk drives with RAID
0,1,3,5.and connects to the host system through and eSATA or USB/IEEE1394
interface.
For ACT-ARS5050 series RAID subsystem, that is also a standard part of all major
operating systems such as xp/2000/2003 server, Mac, Linux, etc, the host system does
not require additional or proprietary software to work with the controller.

1.1.2 Specification

Host Interface
◎ one 3.0Gbps SATA port
※ Disk interface
◎ Five 3.0Gbps SATA ports(for 3.5〞HDD)
※ RAID Features
◎ RAID levels:0,1,10,3,5,JBOD
◎ HDD hot-swap
◎ Automatic online background data rebuilding
◎ Automatic disk failure detect
◎ Array roaming
◎ Rebuilding speed rata:200GB per hour(Max.)
※ Management
◎ Driverless: need no driver on host side
◎ LED indicators for Disk status display
◎ LCD control panel for operation status display
◎ RAID level configuration and selection by LCD panel or UTran RAID
manager utility
◎ System temperature. Voltage and Fan monitoring
◎ NVRAM for event log and system configuration setting
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