Areca ARC-1215-4i (4-Port PCIe 3.0 Internal 6Gbps SAS RAID Adapter)

Areca ARC-1215-4i

The 6Gb/s SAS RAID controllers raise the standard to higher performance levels with several enhancements including new high performance dual core ROC Processor, a DDR3-1333 memory architecture and high performance PCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface bus interconnection. The low profile controllers by default support on-board 1G of ECC DDR3-1333 SDRAM memory. The optional battery backup module provides power to the cache if it contains data not yet written to the drives when power is lost. The test result is against overall performance compared to other 6Gb/s SAS RAID controllers. The powerful new ROC processors integrated 8 6Gb/s SAS ports on chip delivers high performance for servers and workstations..

Adapter Architecture

• PCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface
• Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 800 MHz processor
• 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