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 |
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
- SED (self-encrypting drives) function support
- 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/I2Cconnector 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