Product Description
Areca ARC-1213-4x / ARC-1223-8x
(4/8-Port PCIe 2.0 External SAS/SATA RAID Controllers)
SAS builds on parallel SCSI by providing higher performance, improving data
availability, and simplifying system design. The SAS interface supports both SAS
disk drives for data-intensive applications and Serial ATA (SATA) drives for
low-cost bulk storage of reference data. The ARC-1213-4x / ARC-1223-8x support
directly attach 4/8 SAS ports via 1/2 external SFF-8088 connector. Each port on
the SAS controllers supports SAS and/or SATA devices. Since there is no expander
support on those boards, this can meet the customer inquiry SAS solution (using
same enclosure) to replace SATA solution.
| Low Profile PCI RAID Card |
| Model name |
ARC-1213-4x |
ARC-1223-8x |
| I/O Process |
RAID-on-Chip 800MHz |
| On-Board Cache |
512MB ECC DDR2-800
SDRAM |
| Host Bus Type |
PCIe 2.0 x 8 Lanes |
| Driver Connector |
1xSFF-8088
|
2xSFF-8088
|
| Drive Support |
4 x SAS/SATA HDDs |
8 x SAS/SATA HDDs |
| RAID Level |
0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, Single Disk or
JBOD |
0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60,
Single Disk or JBOD |
| Form Factor |
Low Profile |
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Architecture
 800MHz
RAID-on-Chip (ROC) processor
PCIe 2.0 x8 lane host interface
Support up to 4/8 internal 6Gb/s SAS physical links
ARC-1213-4x/8x supports up to 4/8 x 6Gb/s SAS/SATA HDDs
Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance
BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification
support
Support EFI BIOS for Mac Pro
NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
Redundant flash image for controller availability
Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready (Option)
RoHS compliant
RAID Features
RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
Multiple RAID selection
Online array roaming
Offline RAID set
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
Greater than 2TB capacity per disk drive support
Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
Support intelligent power management to save energy and
extend service life
Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board
Ethernet port
Monitors/Indicators
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
Operating System
Windows 7/2008/Vista/XP/2003
Linux
FreeBSD
VMware
Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
Mac OS 10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x
Environmental/Physical Mechanical
|
Dimension:: |
ARC-1213-4x/1223-8x: 62(H) x 168(L) mm |
Environmental Specifications
|
Operating: |
Temperature:+5°c to +60°c |
| |
Humidity: 15-80%
|
| |
non-condensing |
| |
| Storage Temperature: |
Temperature:-40°c to
70°c |
| |
Humidity: 5-90% |
| |
non-condensing |
Electrical
| Power
Dissipation: |
12V
+3.3V |
| |
ARC-12x3 series:
12.1W (9.6W+2.5W) |
| 
