Areca ARC-1212 4-Port SAS RAID Controller

Areca high-performance PCIe to SAS RAID host adapter can provide up to 4 SAS/SATA ll peripheral devices. The adapters are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven external RAID adapter. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming applications.

System Architecture

• Intel 800MHz IOP348 I/O processor with SAS controller
• PCIe x8 link host interface
• 256MB on-board DDR2-533 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
• Intel RAID engine support extreme performance RAID 6 function
• NVRAM for RAID configuration & transaction log
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• Battery Backup Module ready (Option)
• RoHS Compliant

RAID Features

• RAID level 0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, Single Disk or JBOD
• Multiple RAID selection
• Online array roaming
• 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 per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
• Disk scrubbing/array verify scheduling for automatic repair of all configured RAID sets
• Support spin down drives when not in use to extend service life (MAID)
• Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port

Disk Bus Interface

• Up to 4 SAS/SATA II HDDs (no expander capability)
• Up to 3Gbps per drive port

Monitors/Indicators

• System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, individual fault connector, LCD/I2C connector and alarm buzzer
• SMTP support for email notification
• SNMP support for remote manager
• Enclosure management (Serial bus and SGPIO) ready

Operating System

• Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista
• Linux
• FreeBSD
• Novell Netware 6.5
• Solaris 10 x86/x86_64
• SCO Unixware 7.x.x
• Mac OS X 10.x (EFI BIOS Support)

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0.5m SFF-8087 to SFF-8482 x 4 Fanout SAS Cable
Connect a SAS controller with internal 36 pin miniSAS connector directly to the 29pin SAS connectors on your SAS hard drives. 4 drives per cable, also works with SATA drives. Power is supplied via the pass-through molex power connectors, so you would need up to four molex-style power connectors available - see Related Items on the description page for adapters that may help.

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Part#:
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Areca ARC-1000 LCD Control Panel (Black)
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Part#:
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RaidAge jAGE34R40MS SAS/SATA Backplane
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$139.00

Part#:
SR-jAGE34R40MS