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12Gb/s SAS 8-port external Dual Core PCIe 3.0 (x8) RAID Controller w/ 2GB DDR3 ECC Cache

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Manufacturer Part #:ARC‐1883X

ADK Sku:ADK-ARC-1231-00119

Manufacturer: Areca Technology

Platform:

Win

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days.

Availability: In stock

$1,099.00

Overview

8 Port 12Gb/s PCIe 3.0 RAID Controller

The ARC-1883X is the 3rd generation RAID Controller from Areca offering advanced 12Gb/s SAS technology for increased performance and improved enterprise data protection. Designed with the latest 1.2Ghz dual core ROC processor, DDR2-1866Mhz memory architecture and PCIe 3.0 interface for even the most performance hungry database and IT applications. The ARC-1883X is a low profile PCIe RAID controller with 2x external ports to support up to 8 drives or up to 256 drives using SAS expanders.

Featuring DataBolt Bandwidth Optimizer support allowing the ARC-1883X controller to buffer 6Gb/s data and then transfer it out to the host at 12Gb/s speeds in order to match the bandwidth between faster hosts when combined with 6Gb/s SAS or SATA devices. It also supports failover function for improving system reliability for today's data center and storage subsystems.

Product Highlights

✵ Supports up to (512) 12Gb/s SAS,SATA or SSD drives using SAS expanders

✵ Support up to 8GB DDR3-1866 cache (ARC-1883ix-12/16/24)

✵ Support read/write cache allocation by policy

✵ DataBolt™ Bandwidth Optimizer for balance faster hosts and slower SAS or SATA devices. (For ARC-1883ix)

✵ Support optional flash-based backup module (FBM) protection using SuperCap or battery

✵ SES2, SMP and SGPIO enclosure management

✵ Controller level hardware encryption and self-encrypting drive management

✵ Redundant flash image for adapter availability

✵ Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10 (1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)

✵ Support RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk

✵ Broad operating support including Windows, Linux (open source),FreeBSD (open source), Soaris (open source), Mac and VMware

Specifications

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