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12Gb Dual Port SAS RAID Controller - Areca 1883x

Areca 1883x

The new third generation ARC-1883x offers advanced technology for increased performance and improved enterprise data protection. It is 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-1883x includes 8 ports low profile for 12Gb/s throughput on each port.

The 12Gb/s SAS RAID controllers raise the standard to higher performance levels with several enhancements including new high performance 1.2 GHz dual core ROC processor, a DDR3-1866 memory architecture and high-performance PCIe 3.0 interface bus interconnection. The low profile controllers by default support onboard 2G of ECC DDR3-1866 SDRAM memory.

The 12Gb/s SAS RAID controller support broad operating system including Windows, Linux (Open Source), FreeBSD (Open Source), Solaris (Open Source), Mac, VMware and more, along with key systems monitoring features such as enclosure management (SES-2, SMP, & SGPIO) and SNMP function.

Designed and leveraged with Areca’s existing high-performance RAID solution, ARC-1883x provides superior levels performance and enterprise level data protection for the most demanding next generation server and storage environments. It supports the hardware RAID 6 engine to allow two HDDs failures without impact the existing data and performance. It allows users to hot swap drive in the event of a drive failure with zero downtime. The optional flash-based backup module (FBM) provides power to the cache if it contains data not yet written to the drives when power is lost. ARC-1883x also supports traditional Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery backup module (BBM) to protect cached data on RAID adapters.

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I/O Processor	Dual Core RAID-on-Chip 1.2 GHz
On-Board Cache	2GB on-board DDR3-1866 SDRAM
Drive Connector	2 x SFF-8644
Drive Support	Up to 256 12Gb/s SAS or 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA HDDs/SSD, using 12Gb/s SAS Expander
Management Port	In-Band PCIe /Out of Band: BIOS, LCD and LAN Port
Enclosure Ready	lndividual Activity/Fault Header, SGPIO,SMP and SES2
FMB/BBM Support	ARC-1883CAP/ARC-6120BA-T121-12G
Power Dissipation (12V)	14.4W
Form Factor(LxH)	Low Profile: 169.5 x 64.4 mm

Adapter Architecture

Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 1.2GHz processor
PCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface
2GB onboard DDR3-1866 SDRAM with ECC (ARC-1883LP/1883i/1883x)
One 240-pin DIMM socket for 2GB(default) up to 8GB DDR3-1866, 1Rx8, ECC module or 8GB, DDR3-1600, 2Rx8, ECC module
Write-through or write-back cache support
Support up to 4/8/12/16/24 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)
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 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 onboard Ethernet port
Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support
Controller level hardware encryption function support

Monitors/Notifications

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

Environmental/Physical

Operating:	Temperature: +5°c to +60°c
Operating:	Humidity: 15-80%, non-condensing
Storage:	Temperature: -40°c to 70°c
	Humidity: 5-90%, non-condensing

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