Areca ARC-1231ML 12 port SATA RAID Controller
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 12 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
- Support via the web at www.tekram.com

Comparison Chart
| Model Name | ARC-1231ML |
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| Host Bus Type |
PCI-Express X8 |
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| RAID Processor |
Intel IOP341 |
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| RAID 6 Support | YES |
YES |
YES |
| Cache Memory |
One DDR2-533 DIMM (Default 256 MB / Upgrade to 2GB) |
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| 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
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