ARECAARC-1216-4I 4-port SAS/SATA (1xSFF8643), 1GB cache, RAID 0/1/1E/10/00/100, PCI-E 3.0 x8,LP

ARC-1216-4i/1226-8i
(4/8-Port PCIe 3.0 External 12Gbps SAS RAID Adapters)

The 12Gb/s SAS is designed for backward compatibility with 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA hard drives. The 12Gb/s SAS interface supports both 12Gb/s SAS disk drives for data-intensive applications and 6Gb/s SATA drives for low-cost bulk storage of reference data. The ARC-1216-4i/4x and ARC-1226-8i/8x RAID controllers only support directly attach to 4/8 SAS/SATA drives without supporting the expand function. The ARC-12x6 series default support 1GB on-board DDR3-1600 SDRAM memory.


PCIe 3.0 12Gb/s SAS RAID Controller

Model Name
ARC-1216-4i

ARC-1226-8i

I/O Processor
Dual Core RAID-on-Chip 1.2GHz

On-Board Cache
1GB on-board DDR3-1600 SDRAM with ECC

Driver Connector
1 x SFF-8643




2 x SFF-8643

Management Port
In-Band: PCIe / Out-of-Band: BIOS and LCD (Optional) and LAN Port

Enclosure Ready
Individual Activity/Faulty Header, Serial Bus and SGPIO

Form Factor (LxH)
Low Profile: 169.5 x 64.4 mm

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Adapter Architecture


Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 1.2 GHz processor
PCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface
1GB on-board DDR3-1600 SDRAM with ECC
Write-through or write-back cache support
Support up to 4/8 internal or 4/8 external 12Gb/s
SAS ports
ARC-1216-4i supports up to 4 x 12Gb/s SAS/SATA
HDDs
ARC-1226-8i supports up to 8 x 12Gb/s SAS/SATA
HDDs
BIOS boot array support for greater fault tolerance
Boot support for the uEFI host BIOS
NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
Redundant flash image for controller availability
Multi-adapter support for large storage

requirements
Support flash-based or battery backup module
(FBM/BBM) ready (optional)
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
Support HDD firmware update
Configurable stripe size up to 1024KB
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 intelligent power management to save
energy and extend service life
Support for native 4K and 512 byte sector SAS and
SATA devices
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 (Serial Bus) 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 (Optional)
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 10/8/Server2012/7/2008/Vista/XP/2003
Linux
FreeBSD
VMware (only driver package available w/o
management)
Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
Mac OS X 10.4 or Higher

Environmental/Physical
Environmental

Operating: Temperature: +5°c to +60°c
Humidity: 15-80%, non-condensing

Storage: Temperature: -40°c to 70°c
Humidity: 5-90%, non-condensing


Electrical Requirements

Power Dissipation: On +12V: 14.4W