Areca ARC-1203-2I

ARC-1203

The Areca ARC-1203-2i SATA RAID controllers PCIe 2.0 x1 bus to SATA disk array controller. They can provide two SATA III ports on a single controller.

The SATA RAID adapter can provide a high performance and fault tolerance with data mirroring for maximum protection. The ARC-1203-2i is cost-effective 6 Gbps SATA RAID solution for desktop and workstations as well as entry-level servers.

Features and Benefits

• Supports up to 2 SATA III HDDs
• 600 MB/s speed at each port
• True hardware RAID protection for all your valuable data
• Hot-swap and Hot-spare function for data availability
• Online capacity expansion, RAID level/stripe size migration
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• Optional Battery Backup Module (BBM)
• Web browser-based RAID manager via Archttp Proxy Server
• Broad operating support including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and FreeBSD

Technical Specifications

Model Areca ARC-1203-2i

Adapter Architecture

Host Bus Type PCIe 2.0 x1

Processor ARM 1066 MHz

Controller-Flash-Image redundant

Batterie Backup optional

Cache 512 MB DDR3-1066

HDDs 2 x SATA III (6 Gbit/s)

HDD Ports 2 x SATA

Operating Systems

Supported OS Windows 10/8/Server 2012 R2/7/2008/Vista/XP/2003

RedHat Linux

SuSE Linux

Free BSD

Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64

Mac OS X 10.5.x or higher

RAID

RAID Level 0, 1, Single disk and JBOD

RAID Features Multiple RAID selection, instant availability and background initialization, greater than 2 TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)

Online expansion Online array roaming, online RAID level/stripe size migration, online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously, online volume set growth

Environment Specification

Humidity 15 % ~ 8 0%, non-condensing

Operating Temperature +5 °C ~ 60 °C

Dimension

Physical Dimensions/mm (Width x Height) 134 x 64

Form Factor Low Profile