Areca ARC-1212X PCIe SATA RAID Controller

The ARC-1212X SATA/SAS RAID host adapter is a high-performance PCI-Express bus host adapter. The controller can provide up to 4 SATA/SAS peripheral devices on a single host adapter. When properly configured, the host adapter can provide non-stop service with a high degree of fault tolerance through the use of RAID technology and advanced array management features. The Intel IOP341 processor has integrated the RAID 6 engine inside. It offers Areca the advantage of reduced engineering and development costs, by having the new RAID 6 function build-in and integrated part saves on component costs and internal PCI bandwidth. Intel emphasis on architectural commonality in IOPs allows Areca developers to capitalize on their existing code base. The 4 port host adapter is a low-profile PCI card-ideal for 1U or 2U rack-mount system. It uses the same RAID kernel of its field-proven external RAID controller.

Specifications

• Intel IOP341 I/O processor
• PCI-Express X8 bus
• 256MB on-board SDRAM with ECC protection
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Support up to 4 SATA/SAS 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)
• RoHS Compliant

RAID Features

• RAID level 0,1, 1E, 3, 5, and 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 insertion/removal detection and rebuild
• Greater than 2TB per volume set
• Support spin down drives when not in use to extend service life (MAID)
• Support S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin-up capable drives

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 Enclosure management ready

RAID Management

• Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
  
  In-Band Manager
• Hot key boot-up McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS
• Support controller’s API library for customer to write its own AP
• Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Browser-based management utility via ArcHttp Proxy Server
• Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility

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

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