Areca ARC-1883LP

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