Welcome to CineRaid

The CineRAID ExpandPRO has the ability to expand the number of end devices that you can connect together with existing ExpandPRO enclosure. Our system supports large configurations of SAS end devices, including SAS RAID adapters, SAS and SATA disk drives.

The ExpandPRO is CineRAID’s latest ultra-high performance, cost-effective, enterprise-class enclosure. This chassis is compatible with both SAS and SATA HDD. SAS/SATA drives connect directly to CineRAID’s unique horizontal backplane which is then attached to our SAS RAID controller through an expander module. The ExpandPRO supports daisy chain expansion up to 8 enclosures for a total of 122 HDD!

Data Protection
The CineRAID ExpandPRO comes with Areca’s field proven RAID Technology, offering the highest level of data protection with minimal performance decrease. This keeps your workflow uninterrupted when it matters the most. If a drive fails in RAID 5 protected mode, you can sustain a failed drive without losing any data while continuing your operation. In RAID 6, it can sustain up to 2 concurrent drive failures without losing your important data.

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Industrial & Modular Design

Each enclosure is designed with durability and functionality in mind incorporated with a high cooling air flow system. Utilizing CineRAID's unique horizontal backplane, it allows for maximum airflow through the enclosure to cool down those data important HDD. Compared to other enclosures, our backplane has a clear advantage allowing over 50% more airflow!

Cool air is drawn from the front of the unit through the hard drives dissipating the heat through the rear. Being a modular design, all ExpandPRO enclosures have interchangeable parts. This allows high use items, such as the fan, to be quickly and easily replaced with little to no down time.

We utilize quiet, reliable, ball bearing fans which are designed specially for venting unnecessary heat away from the hard drives and through the rear of the enclosure. Two industrial grade fans pull air though the chassis for maximum cooling while maintaining minimal noise.

The rear of our enclosure features a 650W 2+1 hot swap redundant power supply. This configuration will support up to 2 failed power supplies for maximum protection of your important data. The rear also has a large venting area to exhaust heat being pulled through the HDD. The terminal is an in band management for CLI (Command Line Interface). The CLI is useful in environments where a graphical user interface is not available

Expandability

The CineRAID ExpandPRO allows our customers the ability to expand there storage capacity as needed. Additional storage capacity becomes necessary as your business grows and our system provides an easy expansion of data simply by adding a couple key components. The ExpandPRO will achieve your current needs while being cost effective to upgrade down the line without any downtime.

The CR-8020 ExpandPRO has 3 SAS expander ports in the rear which allows a daisy chain of up to 8 enclosures!

Ideal Applications

Video Editing	Multi-Stream of 8 & 10 bit Uncompressed SD, DVCPRO HD, HDV, DV.
Digital Library	Photo/MP3 libraries, Motion Graphics
Application	Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Aperture, Photoshop, Lightroom, etc.

Specifications

Features:
- Designed to fully support Areca’s I2C function
- Supports S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB staggered Spin-up capable drivers
- Hot-Swap and hot-spare support for easy maintenance
- Front panel power, activity, and fault LED’s (I2C)
- Silent operation

RAID Features:
- RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 6 or JBOD
- Multiple RAID selection
- Array roaming
- Online RAID level/stripe size migration
- Online Volume set growth
- Instant availability and background initialization
- Automatic insertion/removal detection and rebuild
- Greater than 2TB per volume set
- Supports S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB staggered Spin-up capable drivers
- Support spin down drivers when not in use to extend service life (MAID)
- Support NTP protocol to synchronize RAID controller clock over on-board Ethernet port

RAID Monitors/Notifications:
- Activity & Fault LEDs
- Warning buzzer
- I2C Enclosure management ready

System Requirements:
- Apple Mac Pro – One available PCI-e x8 slot
- Apple Power Mac G5 - one available PCI- - X slot (later model with PCI-e slots, One available PCI-e slot)
- Windows-based compatible PC with one PCI-e X8 or PCI-X

Operating System:
- Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista
- Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, TurboLinux, CentoOS, etc)
- FreeBSD
- Novell Netware 6.5
- Solaris 10 X86/x86_64
- SCO UnixWare 7.X.X
- Mac OS X