The Areca ARC-1203-8I is a PCIe 2.0 to SATA RAID Adapter;
- 8 x Internal Ports
- x2 8087 Cable Connector
- 4-Lane PCI Express® 2.0
- Up to 8 x SATA HDDs/SSD
- RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60 and Single Disk
ARC-1203 series internal PCIe 2.0 host RAID controllers are the cost-effective solutions for connecting 2/4/8 6Gb/s SATA peripherial devices. Areca’s ARC-1203 series entry-level RAID controllers cover the spectrum of wild range storage requirements for cost-sensitive applications that require robust data protection. The 2/4/8 port configurations are aimed at high-availability and capacity oriented applications, such as security systems, surveillance, multimedia content generation, large-volume data capturing, mail servers and entry-level database systems.
Features:
- Supports up to (8) 6Gb/s SATA or SSD drives
- Support up to 512MB DDR3-1066 cache
- Support read/write cache allocation by policy
- Support optional battery backup module (BBM)
- Self-encrypting drive management
- SGPIO enclosure management
- Redundant flash image for adapter availability
- Support RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk
- Broad operating support including Windows, Linux (open source),FreeBSD (open source), Soaris (open source), Mac and VMware
RAID Features:
- Multiple RAID selection (RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60 and Single Disk
- Configurable stripe size up to 1MB
- Support HDD firmware update
- 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
- Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
- SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support
- Instant availability and background initialization
- Support global and dedicated hot spare
- Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding
- Support for native 4K and 512 byte sector SAS and SATA devices
- Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
- Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port