ARECA 8-port (SFF-8643) 12Gb/s SAS RAID, 2GB DDR3, PCIe x8 Card, LP

The new third generation ARC-1883 family offers advanced technology for increased performance and improved enterprise data protection. They were designed with 1.2 GHz dual core ROC processor, DDR3-1866 memory architecture and PCIe 3.0 interface for the most performance-hungry database and IT applications. The ARC-1883 family includes 8 ports low profile as well as full height 12/16/24 internal ports with additional 4 external ports with mini SAS HD connectors for 12Gb/s throughput on each port.

Adapter Architecture

Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 1.2GHz processor
PCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface
2GB on-board DDR3-1866 SDRAM with ECC (ARC-1883LP/1883i/1883x)
Write-through or write-back cache support
Support up to 4/8 internal or 4/8 external 12Gb/s SAS ports
Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
BIOS boot array support for greater fault tolerance
Supports up to 256 SATA or SAS devices using SAS expanders
Boot support for the uEFI host BIOS
NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
Redundant flash image for controller availability
Flash-based or battery backup module (FBM/BBM) ready (Optional)
Model: ARC-1883BA-T100/ARC-6120BA-T121-12G
RoHS compliant

RAID Features
RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10(1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
Multiple RAID selection
Configurable stripe size up to 1MB
Support HDD firmware update
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
Support global and dedicated hot spare
Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding
Support for native 4K and 512 byte sector SAS and SATA devices
Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port
Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support
Controller level hardware encryption function support


Monitors/Notification
System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, individual activity/fault connector, LCD/I2C?connector and alarm buzzer
SMTP support for email notification
SNMP support for remote manager
Enclosure management (SES-2, SMP and SGPIO) ready

RAID Management
Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
In-Band Manager
Hot key "boot-up" McBIOS RAID manager via M/B BIOS
Web browser-based McRAID storage manager via ArcHttp proxy server for all operating systems
Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
API library for customer to write monitor utility
Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
Out-of-Band Manager
Firmware-embedded web browser-based McRAID storage manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via Ethernet port
API library for customer to write monitor utility
Support push button and LCD display panel (optional)

Operating System
Windows 8/Server2012/7/2008/Vista/Server 2003/XP
Linux
FreeBSD
VMware (only driver package available w/o in-band management utility)
Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
Mac OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x/10.8.x/10.9.x