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