Areca ARC-1215-4x (4-Port PCIe 3.0 External 6Gbps SAS RAID Adapter)

SAS 2.0 is designed for much higher speed data transfer than previous available and backward compatibility with SAS 1.0. The 6Gb/s SAS interface supports both 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA disk drives for data-intensive applications and 6Gb/s or 3Gb/s SATA drives for low-cost bulk storage of reference data. The ARC-12x5 family only support directly attach to 4/8 SAS/SATA drives without supporting the expand function.

ARC-1215-4x
(4-Port PCIe 3.0 External 6Gbps SAS RAID Adapter)

SAS 2.0 is designed for much higher speed data transfer than previous available and backward compatibility with SAS 1.0. The 6Gb/s SAS interface supports both 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA disk drives for data-intensive applications and 6Gb/s or 3Gb/s SATA drives for low-cost bulk storage of reference data. The ARC-12x5 family only support directly attach to 4/8 SAS/SATA drives without supporting the expand function.

Adapter Architecture
 Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 800 MHz processor
 PCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface
 1GB on-board DDR3-1333 SDRAM with ECC
 Write-through or write-back cache support
 ARC-1215-4x supports up to 4 x 6Gb/s SAS/SATA HDDs
 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
 Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
 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
 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
 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
 Support firmware level Hdd Xfer speed test

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 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