ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML/1280(12/16/24-port PCIe to SATA ll RAID Adapters)

Areca high-performance PCI-Express bus to SATA RAID host adapters support 12, 16 and 24 SATA ll peripheral devices on a single host adapter. SATA RAID controller has the same RAID kernel of its field-proven external RAID controllers. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers including NAS, server RAID solutions, web server, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming and streaming applications server.

The ML version comes with Min SAS 4i internal connector. This Min SAS 4i (SFF-8087) connector has eight signal pins to support four SATA drives and six pins for the SGPIO (Serial General Purpose Input/Output) side-band signals. The SGPIO bus is for efficient LED management and for sensing drive locate status, without any discrete fault & activity cable needed.

      For the products photo link: http://www.areca.com.tw/support/photo_gallery.htm       Adapter Architecture  

Intel 800MHz IOP341 I/O processor   PCI-Express X8 bus   One DIMM socket with default 512MB of DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection, Upgrade to 4GB from PCB 2.0. An ECC or non-ECC SDRAM module using X8 or X16 chip organization   Write-through or write-back cache support   Support up to 12/16/24 SATA II drives   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   Intel RAID 6 Engine to support extreme performance RAID 6   NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log   Redundant flash image for adapter availability   Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready
ARC-6120BA-T112   RoHS Compliant       RAID Features   RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6 (if RAID 6 engine supported) and JBOD   Multiple RAID selection   Array roaming   Online RAID level/stripe size migration   Online RAID capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously     Online Volume set growth   Instant availability and background initialization   Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuild  

Greater than 2TB per volume set

  Support S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin-up capable drives   Support spin down drives when not in use to extend service life (MAID)   Support NTP protocol to synchronize RAID controller clock over on-board Ethernet port       Monitors/Indicators  

System status indication through HDD activity/fault connector, LCD Connector and alarm buzzer

SMTP support email notification

  SNMP support for remote notification   I2C Enclosure management ready   Server chassis features the 36-ckt Mini-SAS connector (SFF-8087) on its SAS backplanes    

http://www.aicipc.com/SAS/sas_server_sa10.asp

      RAID Management   Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM     In-Band Manager   Hot key boot-up McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS     API library for customer to write its monitor utility   Support Command Line Interface (CLI)   Browser-based management utility via ArcHttp Proxy Server   Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility     Out-of-Band Manager   Firmware-embedded Browser-based RAID manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via on-controller Ethernet port   API library for customer to write its monitor utility   Push Button and LCD display panel         Software Drivers   Windows 7/2008/Vista/Server 2003/XP/2000   Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, TurboLinux, CentOS, etc.)   FreeBSD   Novell Netware 6.5   Solaris 10 x86/x86_64   SCO UnixWare 7.x.x   Mac OS 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x (EFI BIOS support)         Environmental/Physical   Mechanical  

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