The Areca ARC-4038 8-Bay 12Gb SAS Expander JBOD Tower Enclosure is capable of accommodating up to eight 12 Gb/s Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) drives, or 6 Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA) drives. The Areca ARC-4038 8-Bay 12Gb SAS Expander JBOD Tower Enclosure can be used to quickly and easily expand their storage. The Areca ARC-4038 8-Bay 12Gb SAS Expander JBOD Tower Enclosure can house up to eight 2.5" or 3.5" disk drives as speeds of up to 15K for SAS drives, and up to 10K for SATA drives.
With plug-and-play configuration this tower enclosure can be set up in no time. On the back of the unit you will find eight SAS hard drive connectors, a single power supply connector, two cooling fan module connectors, and a single expander board connector. Users can also take advantage of four SFF-8644 and one SFF-8088 connectors making it easy to connect to host/expansion units. To manage this tower enclosure, Areca has integrated into the unit one 6-pin RJ-11 connector and one RJ-45 LAN connector.
Key Features
Four 12Gb/s SFF-8644 and one 6Gb/s SFF-8088 SAS host and expansion connections
LED activity/status in each drive carrier
Daisy chain capacity expansion for additional ARC-4038
Plug-n-play additional capacity without shutting down
Support CLI for configuration and environmental information
In the Box
Areca ARC-4038 8-Bay 12Gb SAS Expander JBOD Tower Enclosure
SAS hard drives: Up to 8 x 2.5" or 3.5" SAS hot-plug hard drives (12.0 Gb/s) at speeds of 7.2K, 10K or 15K RPM
SATA hard drives: Up to 8 x 2.5" or 3.5" SATA hot-plug hard drives (6.0 Gb/s) at speeds of 7.2K or 10K RPM
JBOD Controller Modules
Expander board: 1 module Sensors: 1 sensor on the expander board
Backplane
8 x SAS hard-drive connectors 1 x power supply connector 2 x cooling fan module connectors 1 x sets of expander board connector
Back Panel Connectors
I/O connectors: 2 x SFF-8644 + 1 x SFF-8088 "Host In" connectors for connection to the host 2 x SFF-8644 "Expansion Out" connectors for expansion to an additional JBOD enclosure
Management connectors: 1 x 6-pin UART RJ-11 connector 1 x RJ-45 LAN connector (manufacture manager only)
LED Indicators
Hard-drive carrier: 1 x Blue single-color activity LED 1 x Two-color LED status indicator per drive
Expander board: 2 x One-color LED status indicators for each SAS host port, one for SAS host port link and one for the activity status 2 x One-color LED status indicators for each SAS expansion port, one for SAS expansion port link and one for the activity state
Prop65 WARNING: This product may expose you to chemicals which are known to the State of California to cause cancer. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.