ARC-1212X - Areca PCIe 4 Channel RAID Controller with enhanced performance

  Areca's NEW High Performance PCI Express 4 channel card offers a large number of RAID choices including RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 or JBOD. When properly configured, the SATA host adapter can provide non-stop service with a high degree of fault tolerance through the use of RAID technology and advanced array management features.

The Intel IOP-348 Processor has integrated the RAID 6 engine inside offering Areca the advantage of reduced engineering and development costs. By having the New RAID 6 function built-in and integrated saves on component costs and internal PCI Bandwidth. Intels emphasis on architectural commonality in IOPs allows Areca developers to capitalize on their existing code base.

  This card offers the fastest processor available providing unsurpassed performance. The NEW IOP348 processor offers added performance benefits at a lower component cost.

ADAPTER ARCHITECTURE

• Intel-R IOP348 Processor
• PCI Express 8 Lane
• Write though or write back cache support
• Supports up to 4 SATA Drives, 8TB with todays drives
• Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
• BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance
• Intel RAID 6 engine to support extreme performance RAID 6
• NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
• Backup battery available
• RoHS Compliant

RAID FEATURES

• RAID Level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 and JBOD
• Multiple RAID selection
• Array Roaming
• Online RAID Level / Stripe migration
• Online RAID capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
• Instant availability and background initialization
• Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuild
• Greater that 2TB volume support
• Supports S.M.A.R.T., NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin-up capable drives
• Support drive spin down when not in use to extend service life (MAID)
• SMTP support email notification
• SNMP support for remote notification

RAID MANAGEMENT

• Field upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
• Hot Key Boot-up McBIOS RAID Manager
• Support controllers API library for customer to write it's own AP
• Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Browser based management utility via ArcHttp Proxy Server
• Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
• Disk Stress Test (DST) utility for production in Windows

SOFTWARE DRIVERS

• Mac OSX 10.4 - 10.6 with EFI BIOS Support
• Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows7 (SCSIPort driver)
• Windows Server 2003, 2008 (SCSIPort driver and Storport driver)
• RedHat Linux and SuSE Linux
• FreeBSD
• Solaris 10x86
• UnixWare 7.1.x
• Netware 6.5