ARC-1224-8I, SAS 6Gb/s, 8-Port, PCIe 2.0 x8, Controller with 1GB Cache

ARC-1214-4I/1224-8I (4/8-Port PCIe 2.0 to SATA lll RAID Adapters)

ARC-12x4 internal PCIe 2.0 host RAID controllers are a cost-effective solutions for connecting up to 4/8 6Gb/s SATA peripheral devices. The RAID controllers are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven internal/external RAID controller and same device driver architecture with widely used 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID controller. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, near-line backup, security systems and streaming applications. ARC-1214-4I/1224-8I support directly attached 4/8 internal 6Gb/s SATA ports via 1/2 SFF-8087 connector.

Adapter Architecture

• ARM storage I/O processor
• 1GB on-board SDRAM with ECC
• PCIe 2.0 x8 lanes host interface
• Support up to 4/8 internal 6Gb/s SATA physical links
• ARC-1214-4I supports up to 4 x 6Gb/s SATA HDDs
• ARC-1224-8I supports up to 8 x 6Gb/s 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 (Optional) Model: ARC-6120BA-T121
• RoHS compliant

RAID Features

• RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
• Multi-level RAID 0 and RAID 10 (R00 and R100)
• Support up to 1MB stripe size
• Multiple RAID selection
• 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
• 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
• Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
• SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support

Monitors/Indicators

• System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, individual fault connector, LCD/serial bus connector and alarm buzzer
• SMTP support for email notification
• SNMP support for remote manager
• Enclosure management (Serial bus 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 8/2012/7/2008/Vista/XP/2003
• Linux
• FreeBSD
• VMware (only driver package available w/o management utility)
• Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
• Mac OS 10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x/10.8.x

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