Areca ARC-1221X PCIe SATA-II RAID Controller

The ARC-1221X Serial ATA ll RAID host adapter is a high-performance PCI-Express bus to SATA ll Disk Array host adapter. The controller can provide up to 8 SATA ll peripheral devices on a single host adapter. When properly configured, the SATA 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.

ARC-1221X Features

• ARC-1221X uses Intel IOP341 I/O processor
• PCI-Express X8 bus
• 256MB on-board DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Support up to 8 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
• RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 and JBOD
• Drivers for Windows 2000/XP, Windows Server 2003, Redhat and Suse Linux, FreeBSD, MAC OS X (10.4.X)