Arena RAID Arrays

Take your pick. Arena manufacturers storage RAID arrays that seems to fit the bill. Know to be reasonably priced and you will certainly get your value.

In essence Arena offers their chassis with a choice of four host interfaces:

1. Certainly the most popular - 4GB Fibre
2. New to the market - iSCSI
3. New to the market - SAS
4. Not to forget the old standard SCSI

Presently Sunstar Company carries the vast majority of the Arena product line with the exception of their very small units. We offer their chassis supporting 12, 16 or 24 disk drives.

As for drives, Arena offers units supporting a choice of SATA or SAS drives.

Controllers and Expansion

Most units come with a single controller - no expansion - what you see is what you get. There are a few boxes that come with again a single controller that supports expansion. Utilizing the SA-6692J (SATA) or the SS-6692J (SAS) JBOD, the existing SAN can be expanded to support an addition 16 drives. Presently there are two models, the SS-8802R (24 Drives - SAS attached) and the SS-8801R (24 Drives- Fibre Attached) that support Redundant Controllers.

With or without.

Sunstar offers these units with or without disk drives. We can configure the RAID array for you with drives of your choice or should you prefer to purchase just the chassis this can be arranged.

The Arena 820SR NAS is a terrific box. We have sold numerous of these units - in many cases multiple units to our cutomer. It supprts CIFS and NFS and has redundancy built in.

Please do contact us if we can be of assistance.

info@sunstarco.com 800.663.5523

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Sunstar Company, Inc.

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