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Areca

Areca Technology (廣安科技) is a RAID storage brand offering RAID adapters, JBOD, and Thunderbolt RAID storage products.

Last updated September 15, 2026

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Overview

Areca Technology (廣安科技) presents itself as a RAID storage brand covering RAID storage, adapters, and JBOD. Its product lines include NVMe Tri-Mode hardware RAID adapters such as the ARC-1689 series and ARC-1886-16i, Thunderbolt RAID storage such as the ARC-8050T5U, NVMe adapters such as the ARC-1203-2N, and the ARC-9200 series 12Gb/s SAS 1U RAID Head. The company has announced products including the ARC-1689-32I Gen5 x16 NVMe Hardware RAID Adapter, the ARC-1689-8N PCIe Gen5 x16 NVMe Hardware RAID Adapter, and the ARC-1203-2N NVMe Cached Hardware RAID Adapter, and has stated that it enables LTO tape support in ARC-1886 Tri-Mode RAID Adapters.

History

Areca Technology (廣安科技) is presented on its official site as a RAID storage brand covering RAID storage, adapters, and JBOD. Its product pages describe NVMe Tri-Mode hardware RAID adapters such as the ARC-1689 series and ARC-1886-16i, Thunderbolt RAID storage such as the ARC-8050T5U, NVMe adapters such as the ARC-1203-2N, and the ARC-9200 series 12Gb/s SAS 1U RAID Head. The site's news list records product announcements including the ARC-1689-32I Gen5 x16 NVMe Hardware RAID Adapter, the ARC-1689-8N PCIe Gen5 x16 NVMe Hardware RAID Adapter, the ARC-1203-2N NVMe Cached Hardware RAID Adapter, and LTO tape support in ARC-1886 Tri-Mode RAID Adapters.

Products and positioning

  • ARC-1689 series

    NVMe Tri-Mode hardware RAID adapters.

  • ARC-1886-16i

    PCIe 4.0 x8 to SAS/SATA/PCIe Gen4 (NVMe) Tri-Mode Hardware RAID and Connectivity; one SFF-8654[x8] connector can support 4 [x2] or 8 [x1] NVMe drive with customized cable.

  • ARC-8050T5U

    Thunderbolt 5 / USB 3.2 Gen2 RAID Storage; Tri-Mode Series.

  • ARC-1203-2N

    2-Port Cached NVMe Native RAID Adapters.

  • ARC-9200 series

    12Gb/s SAS 1U RAID Head; 16Gb/s Fibre-to-SAS / 12Gb/s SAS-to-SAS / 10Gb/s iSCSI-to-SAS.

  • ARC-1689-8N

    PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 M.2 NVMe hardware RAID adapter supporting up to 8 bays PCIe Gen5 x4 M.2 device interface, up to 4x 2280 FF and 4x 22110 FF, PCIe 5.0 host interface with PCIe Gen5 x16 lanes at maximum transfer rate up to 512Gb/s, speeds of 60GB/s, RAID levels 0, 1 (Simple/Multi Mirroring), 10, Single Disk (Single/Dual/Triple) or JBOF/AIC Mode, SED support, redundant flash image, hardware secure boot ready, in-box NVMe driver support for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and VMware, advanced intelligent thermal solution, off module power loss protection (PLP) using optional CBM module, and slot link control capabilities.

  • ARC-1886 series

    8/16 Ports PCIe Gen 4.0 Tri-Mode RAID Adapters supporting up to 8GB DDR4-2666 cache, SFF-9402 compliant connector pin-out, read/write cache allocation by policy, up to 32 NVMe drives using PCIe switch, redundant flash image, UBM/SES2/SMP/SGPIO enclosure management, up to (512) 12Gb/s SAS, SATA or SSD drives using SAS expanders, optional cache backup module (CBM) protection using SuperCap, tri-mode interface at each drive port (12Gb/s SAS/SATA/Gen 4.0 PCIe (NVMe)), RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk, RAID Levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD, controller level hardware encryption and self-encryption drive management, broad operating support including Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and VMware, and support for SAS tape devices and transport layer retries (TLR).

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