Areca ARC-1883i

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

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

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