Areca ARC-1210 PCI-Express 4 Port SATA RAID Controller

Unparalleled Performance

The SATA-II RAID controllers raise the standard to higher performance levels with several enhancements including Intel high-performance I/O Processor (500 MHz), a new DDR memory architecture (DDR333) and high performance PCI-X bus interconnection.

Unsurpassed Data Availability

The SATA-II RAID adapters with extreme performance ASIC RAID 6 engine installed provide the highest RAID 6 feature to and delivers RAID 5 performance. The SATA-II RAID adapters can also provide RAID levels 0, 1 (0+1), 3, 5, 6 and JBOD RAID for maximum configuration flexibility and data availability.

Maximum Interoperability

Areca SATA-II RAID adapters support broad operating systems include Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux (Open Source), SuSE Linux (Open Source), and FreeBSD.

Easy RAID Management

The controller firmware also contains McBIOS RAID manager can access via hot key at BIOS boot-up screen and browser-based McRAID manager that can access from local and remote through the Http Proxy server in Windows, Linux, FreeBSD environment.

Highlights

• Flexible RAID
• Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
• Online Dynamic Volume expansion - volume set, capacity, RAID level, stripe size migration
• Online hot swap: Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding
• Automatically and transparently rebuilds hot spare drives
• Redundant Flash Image(firmware), transaction log, and S.M.A.R.T. function for drives to improve the RAID system integrity, reliability, and availability
• Greater than 2TB per volume set to support 64-bit LBA OS
• Advanced management and configuration utilities
• Web browser-based RAID manager via HTTP PROXY for windows, Linux & FreeBSD environment
• I2C Enclosure management ready

Specifications

Adapter Architecture

• ARC-1210 uses Intel IOP332 I/O processor.
• PCI Express
• 256MB on-board DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection
• One SODIMM socket to support DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection, Upgradable to 2GB
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Support up to 4 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
• NVRAM for RAID configuration & transaction log
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready (Option)

RAID Features

• RAID level 0, 1(0+1), 3, 5, and JBOD
• Multiple RAID selection
• Online Array roaming
• Online RAID level/stripe size migration
• Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
• Instant availability and background initialization
• Automatic insertion/removal detection and rebuild
• Greater than 16TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
• S.M.A.R.T disk drive monitoring for reliability

Monitors / Notification

• System status indication through HDD activity/fault connector, LCD Connector and alarm buzzer
• SMTP support email notification
• I2C Enclosure management ready

RAID Management

• Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
• Web browser-based RAID manager and SNMP agent via HTTP PROXY for Windows, Linux and FreeBSD system
• Hot key boot-up RAID manager via BIOS
• Support Comment Line Interface (CLI)
• Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
• HDD Stress Test (HST) utility for production

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)

Environment / Physical

Mechanical

• Form Factor: PCI Express
• Dimension (H X L): 64mm x 168mm
• SATA Interface: 2/4/6/8 multi-layer SATA latch connector
• I/O Interface:
  
• (2X 4/8/12/16) header for fault LED connector
• (2X 4/8/12/16) header for activity LED connector
• (2X4) header for LCD & enclosure management connector
• (2X6) header for Battery Backup Module (BBM) connector

Environment

• Operating Temperature: + 5 ° C to + 50 ° C
• Operating Humidity: 15-80%, non-condensing
• Storage Temperature: -40 ° C to 70 ° C
• Storage Humidity: 5-90%, non-condensing

Electrical

• Power Requirments:
• 2.5W max. on +5 V
• 6.75W max. on +3.3 V
• 2.5W max. on +12V 4

Service and Support

• 3-Year Warranty

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