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Areca Technology Corporation established in 1999, was founded by a group of engineers primarily from the most distinguished technology institute in Taiwan. Their engineer's team has over 20 years of disk array relative firmware/BIOS, software application, device drivers and ASIC technology experience. With a solid R&D team, Areca designs their own custom ASIC, a high-speed IDE controller, and RAID 6 engine on their controller to achieve high data throughput and availability. Areca's products provide storage products for virtually all areas of the storage market including DAS, NAS, and SAN. All PCI, SCSI, and Fibre disk array controllers support RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 or JBOD. 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 products focus on performance through their innovative Modular H/W and Firmware architecture for easy-to-implement different RAID solutions while leveraging Intel’s IOP high performance architecture and offering the world’s first 8 channels 64-bit/66MHz IDE controller. Product availability is ensured through a polynomial RS engine and redundant flash imaging, while management of the technology is made easy with the incorporation of firmware-embedded Web Browser-based RAID manager via 10/100  Ethernet LAN port for remote monitoring. Firmware-embedded SMTP allows for the sending of mail by RAID controller with no need for additional software and firmware-embedded SNMP agent allows for the remote moitoring of events via LAN with no SNMP agent required.