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ARC-1212/1222
(4/8 Ports PCIe to SAS RAID Adapters)

Areca high-performance PCIe to SAS RAID host adapter can provide up to 4/8 SAS/SATA ll peripheral devices. The adapters are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven external RAID adapter. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming applications.

Low Profile PCI RAID Card
Model name ARC-1212
I/O Process Intel IOP348 800MHz
On-Board Cache DDR2-533 256MB
Host Bus Type PCIe x8
Driver Connector 1xSFF-8087
Drive Support 4 x SAS/SATA HDDs
Expander Support No
RAID Level 0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, Single Disk or JBOD
Form Factor Low Profile


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System Architecture

Intel 800MHz IOP348 I/O processor with SAS controller
PCIe x8 link host interface
256MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection
Support write-through or write-back cache
Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance
BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support
Intel RAID engine support extreme performance RAID 6 function
NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
Redundant flash image for adapter availability
Battery Backup Module ready (Option)
RoHS Compliant

RAID Features
RAID level 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60 or JBOD
Multiple RAID selection
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
Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuilding
Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
Disk scrubbing/ array verify scheduling for automatic repair of all configured RAID sets
Support spin down drives when not in use to extend service life (MAID)
Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port

Disk Bus Interface
Up to 4/8 SAS/SATA II HDDs (no expander capability )
Up to 3Gbps per drive port

Host Connectivity
PCIe x8 lane width host interface

Monitors/Indicators
System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, individual fault connector, LCD/I2C connector and alarm buzzer
SMTP support for email notification
SNMP support for remote manager
Enclosure management (Serial bus and SGPIO) ready

RAID Management
Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
In-Band Manager
Hot key "boot-up" McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS
Web browser-based McRAID storage manager via Http proxy server
Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
API library for customer to write monitor utility
Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
Disk Stress Test (DST) utility for production
Out-of-Band Manager
Firmware-embedded web browser-based McRAID storage manager, SMTP manager and SNMP agent and Telnet function via Ethernet port
API library for customer to write monitor utility
Support Push Button and LCD display panel

Operating System
Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista
Linux
FreeBSD
Novell Netware 6.5
Solaris 10 x86/x86_64
SCO Unixware 7.x.x
Mac OS X 10.x (EFI BIOS Support)