Areca ARC-1203-2N

Highlights ? Supports up to 2 x M.2 drives ? Support up to 512B DDR3-1066 cache ? Support on-board supercapacitor ? Self-encrypting drive management ? Support read/write cache allocation by policy ? Redundant flash image for adapter availability ? Support RAID level 0, 1 and Single Disk(Single/Dual) ? Native OS NVMe host drivers ? Broad operating support including Native OS NVMe host drivers, Windows, Linux (open source),FreeBSD (open source), Soaris (open source), Mac and VMware

PCIe 2.0 X4 to M.2 Cached NVMe RAID Adapter

The Areca ARC-1203-2N NVMe Native RAID host adapter is a PCIe 2.0 x4 bus to 2 ports PCIe 2.0 X1 M.2 disk array host adapter. When properly configured, the M.2 RAID adapter can provide a high degree of performance and fault tolerance with data mirroring for maximum protection. The ARC-1203-2N NVMe RAID adapter is ideal for NVMe boot applications as it naturally provides operating system and recovery data protection that is physically isolated in the system from volume user data. This isolation is critical for applications that require reliable access to the logs and OS boot programs without any chance of being corrupted by user data.

ARC-1203-2N M.2 Cached RAID Adapters

RAID-on-Chip Controller ARM_based storage I/O processor@ 1.066 GHz

Cache Memory 512 MB on-board DDR3-1066 SDRAM with ECC protection

Host Bus Interface 4-Lane PCI Express® 2.0

Drive Connectors 2 x M.2 Connectors

Drive Interface Gen 2.0 X1 PCIe (NVMe)

• Physical Dimensions Low Profile: 168(L) x 64.4(H) mm
• Power Dissipation Typical: 8W

Operating Temperature 0°C to 60°C with 200 LFM airflow

Operating Humidity 10% to 85%, non-condensing

On-board Supercapacitor Yes

RAID Features * RAID level 0, 1 and Single Disk(Single/Dual)

• Multiple RAID selection
• Configurable stripe size up to 1MB
• Array roaming
• RAID level/stripe size migration
• Capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
• SED (self-encrypting drives) function support
• On-board supercapacitor for Non-PLP NVMe drive and LED indicator ready
• Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port

Operating Systems

Native OS NVMe host drivers

Windows

Red Hat Linux

SUSE Linux

FreeBSD macOS

Management Monitor

McRAID Storage Manager

Web-based GUI management utility

Remote configuration, monitoring, and notification

Graphical-based management utility

McRAID Utility

Command-line interface

CIM provider for VMware

API code support

McBIOS Configuration Utility

Legacy configuration utility

Flashable BIOS support

Firmware built-in EFI Shell to launch configuration utility

Monitors/Notification

System status indication through M.2 fault LED and alarm buzzer

SNMP support for remote manager

SMTP support for email notification

On-board supercapacitor to keep on M.2 fault LED status for troubleshooting

• https://www.areca.us/support/download/adapter/doc/ARC-1203-2N_installation_guide.pdf
• EAN: 4712774410485