Areca - ARC-1883X

Specs

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

• Write-Through or write-back cache support

• Support up to 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 uEFI host BIOS

• NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log

• Redundant flash image for controller availability

• Flash-based or Battery backup module (FBM/BBM) 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 RAID 100)

• 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 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 mangement (SES-2, SMP and SGPIO) ready

Connector Ports

• 2x External SFF-8088 MiniSAS Ports

• 1x Ethernet Port - For RAID Management Only

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 / Server 2012 / 7/ 2008 / Vista / Server 2003 / XP

• Linux

• FreeBSD

• VMware (only driver package available w/o inband 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

Environmental - Temperature

• Operating  +5° to +60°C

• Storage - –40° to 70°C

Relative Humidity

• Operating 15% to 80% (non-condensing)

• Storage 5% to 90% (non-condensing)

Electrical Requirements

• Power Dissipation: 12V / 14.4W