Description
ARC-1264il-12
12-Port PCIe to SATA lll RAID Controller
ARC-1264il-12/16 and ARC-1284Ml-24 RAID controllers are a cost-effective RAID storage solution that combines low-cost SATA III and port multiplier chips with low latency for internal storage systems. It is aimed at high-availability and capacity oriented applications more than 8 HDDs, such as security systems, surveillance, multimedia content generation, large-volume data capturing, mail servers and entry-level database systems. Its performance is limited by the port multiplier chip numbers on the controller. Applications will get the best performance when you attach the max number HDDs on the RAID controller or rearrange the HDD position to use max port multiplier chip. ARC-1264il-12/16 and ARC-1284Ml-24 internal PCIe 2.0 host RAID controllers are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven internal/external RAID controller and same device driver architecture with widely used 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID controller. They can support directly attached 12/16/24 internal 6Gb/s SATA ports via 3/4/6 SFF-8087 connectors.
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.
Areca PCI-Express RAID Card Comparison
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Model Name |
ARC-1264il-12
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ARC-1264il-16
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I/O Process |
ARM-based storage I/O processor
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Host Bus Type |
PCIe 2.0 x 8 Lanes
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Drive Connector |
3xSFF-8087
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4xSFF-8087
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Drive Support |
Up to 12x6Gb/s SATA HDDs/SSD
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Up to 16x6Gb/s SATA HDDs/SSD
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RAID Level |
0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk, and JBOD
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On-Board Cache |
1GB on-board SDRAM with ECC
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Management Port |
In-Band: PCIe Out-of-Band: LCD and LAN Port
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Enclosure Ready |
Individual Activity/Faulty Header, Serial Bus and SGPIO
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Adapter Architecture
ARM storage I/O processor
1GB on-board SDRAM with ECC
PCIe 2.0 x8 lanes host interface
ARC-1264il-12/16 supports up to 12/16 x 6Gb/s SATA HDDs
ARC-1284Ml-24 supports up to 24 x 6Gb/s SATA HDDs
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
Support EFI BIOS for Mac Pro
NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
Redundant flash image for controller availability
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
Multi-level RAID 0 and RAID 10 (R00 and R100)
Support up to 1MB stripe size
Multiple RAID selection
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
Greater than 2TB capacity per disk drive support
Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support
Monitors/Indicators


SNMP support for remote manager
Enclosure management (Serial bus and SGPIO) ready
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 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
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 (option)
Operating System
Windows 8/2012/7/2008/Vista/XP/2003
Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, TurboLinux, CentOS, etc.)
FreeBSD
VMware (only driver package available w/o management utility)
Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
Mac OS 10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x/10.8.x
Environmental/Physical
Mechanical
Dimension: | ARC-1264il-12/16: Low Profile 64.4(H) x 202(L) mm |
Environmental Specifications
Operating: | Temperature:+5°c to +60°c |
Humidity: 15-80% | |
non-condensing | |
Storage Temperature: | Temperature:-40°c to 70°c |
Humidity: 5-90% | |
non-condensing |
Electrical
Power Dissipation: | 12V + 3.3V |
ARC-1264il-12/16/1284Ml-24: 13.9W/16.0W/20.2W |