Areca ARC-1300-4e 4-Port eSATA SATA Host Bus Adapter, Non-RAID Controller Card
[ARC-1300-4e]

ARC-1300-4e/4x/4i and ARC-1300ix-16
(SAS Non-RAID Host Adapter)

Areca offers the most complete line of SAS host adapters. The host adapter card enables large-scale direct attach storage (DAS) arrays through external 3Gb/s ports, driving up to 128 end-point devices for Min SAS connector or driving up to 16 SATA devices for eSATA connector. The host bus adapter drives external server storage RAID and non-RAID enclosures with unprecedented throughput by connecting a four-lane 2.5 Gb/s PCI Express bus with option one external x4 SFF8088, one internal x4 SFF8087 and two external x4 SFF8088/four internal x4 SFF8087 miniSAS connectors.

ARC-1300 Series DataSheet

ARC-1300 Manual

RAID Controller Comparison Model Name ARC-1300-4e ARC-1300-4x Host Bus Type PCIe x4 Lane RAID Level N/A Drives Support Up to 16 SATA ll with port multiplier box 128 x SAS/SATA ll External SAS Ports 4 4 External Connector 4 x eSATA 1 X SFF-8088 Internal SAS Ports N/A N/A Internal Connector N/A N/A Dimensions(L x H) 80 x 98 mm 113 x 65 mm
RAID Controller Comparison Model Name ARC-1300-4i ARC-1300ix-16 Host Bus Type PCIe x4 Lane RAID Level N/A Drives Support 128 x SAS/SATA ll 128 x SAS/SATA ll External SAS Ports N/A 8 External Connector N/A 2 X SFF-8088 Internal SAS Ports 4 16 Internal Connector 1 x SFF-8087 4 x SFF-8087 Dimensions(L x H) 113 x 65 mm 208 x 65 mm
Adapter Architecture
	PCIe x4 bus
	PCI express specification, revision 1.0a
	Support SGPIO interface for ARC-1300ix-16
	BIOS PnP(plug and play) and BBS(BIOS boot specification) support
	RoHS compliant
RAID Features
	3Gb/s per port
	x4 external SFF-8088 mini-SAS connectors
	x4 internal SFF-8087 min-SAS connectors
	4 x eSATA connectors for ARC-1300-4e
	Staggered spin-up, Hot Plug and Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for SATA II
	x4 Lane, 2.5 Gb/s PCIe
	Connects to SAS and SATA HDDs, tape drives, SSDs
	Address up to 128 total end-point devices via SAS expanders
Management
	Areca BIOS setup utility
	Enclosure management (SES2 and SGPIO) ready
	System status indicates through global HDD activity/fault header and individual activity/fault header
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 3.0Gbps
	Serial Attached SCSI (SAS-1.1) compliant
	Supports wide port (Any combination of x1, x2, and x4)
	Supports Serial SCSI Protocol
	Supports SAS Management Protocol (SMP)
	Hot-plug capability
	Staggered Spin-up control
Serial ATA 3.0Gbps
	48 bits LBA, support HDD partition larger than 137GB
	Fully compliant with Serial ATA II (3Gbps) compliant, with speed negotiation Serial ATA 1.0a (1.5Gbps) specifications revision 1.1
	Supports external SATA voltage levels
	Hot-plug capability
	Supports Serial ATA II Port Multiplier 1.0 Specifications revision1.1
	Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
	Output swing control
Operating System
	Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000: SCSIport/Storport (32-bit and x64)
	Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, and Fedora Core (32-bit and x64)
	Mac OS X 10.4.X and 10.5 Leopard (no-bootable)
	BSD/FreeBSD (will be available with 6Gb/s Host Adapter)
	Solaris 10/11 (will be available with 6Gb/s Host Adapter)