Areca ARC-1883X 8x port 12Gb/s SAS RAID PCIe x8 Card Dual Core ROC, 2GB Cache 2x SFF-8644,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 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 

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