ARC1231ML, 256MB, SATA
ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML/1280
(12/16/24-port PCIe to SATA ll RAID Adapters)
Areca high-performance PCI-Express bus to SATA RAID host adapters support 12, 16 and 24 SATA ll peripheral devices on a single host adapter. SATA RAID controller has the same RAID kernel of its field-proven external RAID controllers. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers including NAS, server RAID solutions, web server, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming and streaming applications server.
The ML version comes with Min SAS 4i internal connector. This Min SAS 4i (SFF-8087) connector has eight signal pins to support four SATA drives and six pins for the SGPIO (Serial General Purpose Input/Output) side-band signals. The SGPIO bus is for efficient LED management and for sensing drive locate status, without any discrete fault & activity cable needed.
RAID Management
- Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
In-Band Manager
- Hot key boot-up McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS
- API library for customer to write its monitor utility
- Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Browser-based management utility via ArcHttp Proxy Server
- Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
Out-of-Band Manager
- Firmware-embedded Browser-based RAID manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via on-controller Ethernet port
- API library for customer to write its monitor utility
- Push Button and LCD display panel
RAID Features
- RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6 (if RAID 6 engine supported) and JBOD
- Multiple RAID selection
- Array roaming
- Online RAID level/stripe size migration
- Online RAID capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
- Online Volume set growth
- Instant availability and background initialization
- Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuild
Greater than 2TB per volume set
- Support S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin-up capable drives
- Support spin down drives when not in use to extend service life (MAID)
- Support NTP protocol to synchronize RAID controller clock over on-board Ethernet port
