ARC-1223-8X

Areca ARC-1223-8X 8-port External 6Gb/s SAS/SATA PCIe 2.0 x8 RAID Controller
Connector type: 2x SFF-8088 External MiniSAS

The perfect solution for SAS/SATA 6Gb/s direct attached external storage.

Adapter Features

• 800Mhz RAID-on-Chip Processor Supporting RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
• PCIe 2.0 x8 link host interface
• DDR2-800 512MB SDRAM with ECC Protection
• Multiple RAID Selection
• Online Array Roaming / Office RAID set
• Online RAID level/stripe size migration
• Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
• Support global and dedicated hot spare
• Online volume set growth
• Instant availability and background initialization
• Automatice drive insertion / removal detection and rebuilding
• Support for disk drives larger than 2TB
• Support for volumes larger than 2TB (64bit LBA support)
• Supports intelligent power management for energy efficiency and extended service life
• Write-Through or Write Back cache support
• Support up to 8 directly attached 6Gb/s SAS/SATA disk drives
• Multi Adapter support for large storage requirements
• BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance
• BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specifications) support
• Support EFI BIOS for MAC Pro
• NVRAM for RAID configuration and transaction log
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• Battery Backup Module Ready (Optional)
• RoHS Compliant

RAID Management

• Field upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
• In-Band Manager
• Hot Key "boot-up" McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS
• Web Browser-based McRAID storage manager via ARCHTTP proxy Server utility
• Support for Command Line interface (CLI)
• API library for low level access, programming and monitoring
• Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility

Monitors/Notification

• System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, 12C connector and alarm buzzer
• SMTP support for email notification
• SNMP support for remote manager
• Enclosure management (serial bus and SGPIO) ready

Operating System

• Windows 7/Vista/XP/Server 2008/2003
• Linux
• FreeBSD
• Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
• VMware
• Mac OS X 10.x (EFI BIOS Support)

Warranty: 3 Year Manufacturer's Warranty