Interface cards/adapters Areca

SAS 6G RAID Controller, PCIe 2.0, SAS/SATA ARC-1880-ix-12 (12 Internal + 4 External Ports 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Adapters)

Areca high-performance ARC-1880 series PCIe 2.0 to 6Gb/s SAS RAID adapter can provide up to (128) 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA/SSD peripheral devices using 6Gb/s SAS expanders. The adapters are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven external RAID adapter and same device drivers with widely used SAS/SATA RAID adapters. Applications that benefit most features from these adapters include NAS, server RAID solutions, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems, streaming and cloud computing applications.

Adapter Architecture
- 800 MHz RoC for RAID core and SAS microcode
- 512MB on-board DDR2-800 SDRAM with ECC protection (ARC-1880i/1880x/1880ixl-8/1880ixl-12)
- One 240-pin DDR2-800 DIMM socket with default 512MB of SDRAM with ECC protection, upgrade to 4GB (ARC-1880ix-12/16/24)
- Support write-through or write-back cache
- Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
- BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance
- BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support
- Support EFI BIOS for Mac Pro
- NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
- Redundant flash image for adapter availability
- Battery Backup Module ready (Option)
- RoHS Compliant

RAID Features
- RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
- Multiple RAID selection
- Online array roaming/Offline RAID set
- Online RAID level/stripe size migration
- Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
- Online volume set growth
- Instant availability and background initialization
- Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuilding
- Greater than 2TB capacity per disk drive support
- Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
- Disk scrubbing/ array verify scheduling for automatic repair of all configured RAID sets
- Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
- Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board LAN port

Disk Interface
- 4/8/12/16/24 internal and/or 4/8 external 6Gb/s SAS ports
- Up to (128) 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA/SSD drives using 6Gb/s SAS expanders
- Up to 6Gb/s per SAS port

Host Connectivity
- PCIe 2.0 x8 lane compliant

Monitors/Indicators
- System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, individual fault connector, LCD/I2C connector and alarm buzzer
- SMTP support email notification
- SNMP support for remote notification
- Enclosure management (SES-2, SMP and SGPIO) ready

RAID Management
- Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
- In-Band Manager
- Hot key boot-up McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS
- Web browser-based McRAID storage manager via ArcHttp proxy server utility
- Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
- API library for customer to write monitor utility
- Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
- Disk Stress Test (DST) utility for production
- Out-of-Band Manager
- Firmware-embedded web browser-based McRAID storage manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via LAN port
- API library for customer to write monitor utility
- Support Push Button and LCD display panel

Software Drivers
- Windows 7/2008/Vista/XP/2003
- Linux
- FreeBSD
- Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
- Mac OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x
- VMware 4.0