Areca ARC-1880i PCIe 2.0 SAS Controller

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.

Detail

Adapter Architecture

• 800 MHz RoC for RAID core and SAS microcode
• 512MB on-board DDR2-800 SDRAM with ECC protection
• 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

• 8 internal 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

Environmental Specifications

• Operating:
  Temperature: +5°c to +60°c
  Humidity: 15-80%
  non-condensing

Electrical

• Power Requirements:
  1.11W max. +3.3V
  16.92W max. +12V