Areca ARC-1882ix-16 PCIe 2.0 SAS Controller

The 6Gb/s SAS RAID controllers raise the standard to higher performance levels with several enhancements including new high performance dual core ROC Processor, a DDR3-1333 memory architecture and high performance PCIe 2.0 x8 lane host interface bus interconnection. The ARC-1882ix-12/16/24 controllers each include one 240-pin DIMM socket with default 1GB of ECC DDR3-1333 single rank registered SDRAM, upgrade to 4GB. The optional battery backup module provides power to the cache if it contains data not yet written to the drives when power is lost. The test result is against overall performance compared to other 6Gb/s SAS RAID controllers. The powerful new ROC processors integrated 8 6Gb/s SAS ports on chip delivers high performance for servers and workstations.

Highlights

• Supports up to (128) 6Gb/s SAS, SATA or SSD drives using 6Gb/s SAS expanders
• 6Gb/s throughput at each drive ports
• Support up to 4GB DDR3-1333 cache (ARC-1882ix-12/16/24)
• Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10(1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
• Online capacity expansion, RAID level/stripe size migration
• Online volume set growth
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• Greater than 2TB capacity per disk drive support
• Support greater than 2TB per volume set and battery backup module (BBM)
• SES2, SMP and SGPIO enclosure management
• Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life.
• Broad operating support including Windows, Linux (open source), FreeBSD(open source), Soaris(open source), Mac and VMware

Detail

Adapter Architecture

• Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 800 MHz processor
• PCIe 2.0 x8 lane host interface
• One 240-pin DIMM socket for DDR3-1333 ECC single rank registered SDRAM module using x8 or x16 chip organization, upgrade from 1GB (default) to 4GB (ARC-1882ix-12/16/24)
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Support for 8 external 6Gb/s SAS ports
• 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 controller availability
• Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready (Option)
• RoHS compliant

RAID Features

• RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
• Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10(1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
• 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
• Support global and dedicated hot spare
• 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)
• Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
• Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port

Monitors/Indicators

• System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, individual activity/fault connector, LCD/I2C connector and alarm buzzer
• SMTP support for email notification
• SNMP support for remote manager
• 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 M/B BIOS
• Web browser-based McRAID storage manager via ArcHttp proxy server for all operating systems
• Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
• API library for customer to write monitor utility
• Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
  Out-of-Band Manager
• Firmware-embedded web browser-based McRAID storage manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via Ethernet port
• API library for customer to write monitor utility
• Support push button and LCD display panel (option)

Operating System

• Windows 7/2008/Vista/XP/2003
• Linux
• FreeBSD
• VMware
• Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
• Mac OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x

Environmental Specifications

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

Electrical

• Power Dissipation:
  12V +3.3V
  28.81W (26.91W+1.9W)