Areca ARC-1883i 8x port (SFF-8643) 12Gb/s SAS RAID, 2GB DDR3, PCIe x8 Card, LP

Detailed information

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 
Write-through or write-back cache support 
Support up to 24 internal and 4external 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