Areca ARC-1280ML 24 port SATA RAID Controller

SATA-II RAID, Supports RAID 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 and JBOD, 256MB DDR2 cache, Intel 800MHz 81341 Processor, Supports up to 24 drives, PCIe x8 bus, Multilane Internal Connectors. Best-in-class performance. Vista compatible.

$1,105.00
Part#:
SC-ARC-1280ML

Note: a new version of this product has been released: Areca ARC-1880ix-24

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 Mini SAS 4i internal connector. This Mini 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.

Specifications

Adapter Architecture

Intel 800MHz 81341 I/O processor
PCI-Express X8 bus
One DIMM socket with default 256MB of DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection, Upgrade to 2GB. An ECC or non-ECC SDRAM module using X8 or X16 chip organization
Write-through or write-back cache support
Support up to 24 SATA II drives
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 6 Engine to support extreme performance RAID 6
NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
Redundant flash image for adapter availability
Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready
RoHS Compliant
PC and Mac compatible

RAID Features

RAID level 0,1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 or JBOD
Multiple RAID selection
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 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)

Monitors / Notification

System status indication through HDD activity/fault connector, LCD Connector and alarm buzzer
SMTP support email notification
SNMP support for remote notification
I2C& SGPIO Enclosure management ready

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 oncontroller
Ethernet port
API library for customer to write its monitor utility
Push Button and LCD display panel

Operating System

Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003
Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, TurboLinux, CentOS, etc.)
FreeBSD
Novell Netware 6.5
Solaris 10 x86/x86_64
SCO UnixWare 7.x.x
Mac OS X (not bootable)

Service and Support

3-Year Warranty

Comparison Chart

Model Name	ARC-1231ML	ARC-1261ML	ARC-1280ML
Host Bus Type	PCI-Express X8
RAID Processor	Intel IOP341
RAID 6 Support	YES	YES	YES
Cache Memory	One DDR2-533 DIMM (Default 256 MB / Upgrade to 2GB)
Ethernet Port	YES	YES	YES
Driver Support	12*SATA ll	16*SATA ll	24*SATA ll
Connector Type	3*SFF-8087	4*SFF-8087	6*SFF-8087

Reference

Areca 1280ML Brochure

Areca 1280ML Manual

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