Arena - A leading provider of RAID storage systems, today announced upgradable single controller 24bays FC to SAS/SATAII compatible RAID system in Oct 2009.
This Fibre series RAID storage solutions is designed for higher performance and drive reliability by using SAS or Enterprise grade SATA II hard drives.

It could fulfill wide range application in high-end, SAN Ready Fiber RAID. It’s capable to running the latest and most reliable RAID levels 6 & 60, global/local hot spares, and hot swappable power supplies and cooling fans, an easy to use GUI via your web browser, remote management and event notification, JBOD expansion…etc. 

You can even decide how you want to take advantage of the Dual Controller. You could upgrade single controller to dual controller by purchase one more controller. So you can just use both controllers simultaneously for maximum speed, or if you prefer to have redundant controllers, you can put one controller on "standby", so it becomes a backup for the other one.

Feature
•  Upgradable to redundant active/active controllers with dual 4GB Fibre channel per controller.
•  Major RAID levels and 2TB hard drive supported
•  Easy maintenance by modularized controller, power supplies and fans.
• Snapshot technology and up to three parity drives for ultimate data security.
•  Available options: Battery backup, AA-MUX board for SATAII drive.

Ideal application
- Enterprise Storage
- Disk to Disk Backup
- Streaming HD Video Editing
- Streaming Video Applications
- Security and Surveillance
- Regulation Compliance Storage
- Disaster Recovery Storage
- Audio Editing
- Educational or Entertainment VOD
- Fixed Content Archiving

Equipment used in Topology
- SS-8801E 4U 24bays Fibre to SAS RAID x1
- Server x1