Areca ARC-1216-4i

ARC-1216-4i/1226-8i
(4/8-Port PCIe 3.0 External 12Gbps SAS RAID Adapters)

The 12Gb/s SAS is designed for backward compatibility with 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA hard drives. The 12Gb/s SAS interface supports both 12Gb/s SAS disk drives for data-intensive applications and 6Gb/s SATA drives for low-cost bulk storage of reference data. The ARC-1216-4i/4x and ARC-1226-8i/8x RAID controllers only support directly attach to 4/8 SAS/SATA drives without supporting the expand function. The ARC-12x6 series default support 1GB on-board DDR3-1600 SDRAM memory.


PCIe 3.0 12Gb/s SAS RAID Controller

Model Name
ARC-1216-4i

ARC-1226-8i

I/O Processor  
Dual Core RAID-on-Chip 1.2GHz

On-Board Cache  
1GB on-board DDR3-1600 SDRAM with ECC

Driver Connector
1 x SFF-8643




2 x SFF-8643

Management Port
In-Band: PCIe / Out-of-Band: BIOS and LCD (Optional) and LAN Port

Enclosure Ready
Individual Activity/Faulty Header, Serial Bus and SGPIO

Form Factor (LxH)
Low Profile: 169.5 x 64.4 mm  

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 Adapter Architecture
 

Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 1.2 GHz processor
  PCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface
  1GB on-board DDR3-1600 SDRAM with ECC
  Write-through or write-back cache support
  Support up to 4/8 internal or 4/8 external 12Gb/s
   SAS ports
  ARC-1216-4i supports up to 4 x 12Gb/s SAS/SATA
   HDDs
  ARC-1226-8i supports up to 8 x 12Gb/s SAS/SATA
   HDDs
  BIOS boot array support for greater fault tolerance
  Boot support for the uEFI host BIOS
  NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
  Redundant flash image for controller availability
  Multi-adapter support for large storage  

   requirements
  Support 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 RAID100)
  Multiple RAID selection
  Support HDD firmware update
  Configurable stripe size up to 1024KB
  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 intelligent power management to save  
   energy and extend service life
  Support for native 4K and 512 byte sector SAS and
   SATA devices
  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 (Serial Bus) 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 (Optional)
  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 10/8/Server2012/7/2008/Vista/XP/2003
  Linux
  FreeBSD
  VMware (only driver package available w/o  
   management)
  Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
  Mac OS X 10.4 or Higher
   
 Environmental/Physical
 Environmental
 
Operating: Temperature: +5°c to +60°c  
Humidity: 15-80%, non-condensing
 
Storage: Temperature: -40°c to 70°c  
Humidity: 5-90%, non-condensing

     
 Electrical Requirements
 
Power Dissipation: On +12V: 14.4W