Areca ARC-1215-4i
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1. ARC 1215 41 1225 81 4 8 Port PCle 3 0 Internal 6Gbps SAS RAID Controllers ARC 1215 4x 1225 8x 4 8 Port PCle 3 0 External 6Gbps SAS RAID Controllers 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 Highlights e Configurable stripe size up to 1024KB e Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10 1E support RAID 00 and RAID100 Online capacity expansion RAID level stripe size migration Online volume set growth Redundant flash image for adapter availability Serial bus and SGPIO enclosure management Support EFI BIOS for Mac Pro e SSD automatic monitor clone AMC support e Controller level hardware encryp tion function support e Support for native 4K and 512 byte sector SAS and SATA devices e Support intelligent power manage ment to save energy and extend service life e Broad operating support including Windows Linux open source FreeBSD open source Soaris Open source Mac and VMware Unparalleled Performance aaa The 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers raise the standard to higher performance levels with several enhancements i2. e API library for customer to write monitor utility e Support push button and LCD display panel optional Operating System e Windows 8 server 2012 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 e Linux e FreeBSD e VMware only driver package available w o management e Solaris 10 11 x86 x86_64 e Mac OS X 10 4 or higher For more information amp latest supported OS listing visit www areca com tw ARC 1215 4x ARC 1215 8x Enclosure Ready Individual Activity Faulty Header Serial Bus and SGPIO External Serial Bus Products View SERIAL Bw 6Gb s Areca is a registered trademark of Areca Technology Corporation Other brand names and product names are trademark or registered trademarks of their respective companies This specification may be changed at any time without prior notice At the Heart of Storage arec 8F No 22 Lane 35 Ji Hu Rd 114Taipei Taiwan R O C TEL 886 2 87974060 FAX 886 2 87975970 http www areca com tw Technical Support support areca com tw Sales Information sales areca com tw
3. background initialization e Support global and dedicated hot spare e Automatic drive insertion removal detection and rebuilding e Support for native 4K and 512 byte sector SAS and SATA devices e Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life e Multiple pairs SSD HDD disk clone function e SSD automatic monitor clone AMC support Controller level hardware encryption function support e Support firmware level Hdd Xfer speed test Model Name ARC 1215 4i Host Bus Type Peles 8 Lanes Drive Support 4 x SAS SATA 8 x SAS SATA 4 x SAS SATA 8 x SAS SATA On Board Cache 1GB on board DDR3 1333 SDRAM with ECC ARC 1215 8i Monitors Notification System status indication through global HDD activity fault connector individual activity fault connector LCD I2C connector and alarm buzzer SMTP support for email notification SNMP support for remote manager Enclosure management Serial Bus and SGPIO ready RAID Management Seen e 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 e Firmware embedded web browser based McRAID storage manager SMTP manager SNMP agent and Telnet function via Ethernet port
4. d more environ ments The McRAID storage manager allows local and remote to create and modify RAID set volume set and monitor RAID status from standard web browser The Single Admin Portal SAP monitor utility can support one application to scan multiple RAID units in the network Adapter Architecture e Dual Core RAID on Chip ROC 800 MHz processor e PCle 3 0 x8 lane host interface e 1GB on board DDR3 1333 SDRAM with ECC e Support up to 4 8 internal or 4 8 external 6Gb s SAS ports e Write through or write back cache support e ARC 1215 4i 4x supports up to 4 x 6Gb s SAS SATA HDDs e ARC 1225 8i 8x supports up to 8 x 6Gb s SAS SATA HDDs e Multi adapter support for large storage requirements e BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance e BIOS PnP plug and play and BBS BIOS boot specification support e Support EFI BIOS for Mac Pro e NVRAM for RAID event amp transaction log e Redundant flash image for adapter availability e Battery Backup Module BBM ready optional e ROHS compliant RAID Features m e RAID level 0 1 10 1E 3 5 6 30 50 60 Single Disk or JBOD e Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10 1E support RAID 00 and RAID100 e Multiple RAID selection e Configurable stripe size up to 1024KB e Support HDD firmware update e Online array roaming e Online RAID level stripe size migration e Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously e Online volume set growth e Instant availability and
5. ncluding new high performance dual core ROC Processor a DDR3 1333 memory architecture and high performance PCle 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 Unsurpassed Data Availability o l As storage capacities continue to rapidly increase users need greater level of disk drive fault tolerance which can be implemented without doubling the investment in disk drives The RAID 6 can offer fault tolerance greater that RAID 1 or RAID 5 but only consumes the capacity of 2 disk drives for distributed parity data The 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers with extreme performance RAID 6 engine installed provide the highest RAID 6 feature to meet this requirement The controller can concurrently compute two parity blocks and get very similar RAID 5 performance The 6Gb s SAS RAID controllers can also provide RAID levels 0 1 1E 3 5 6 10 30 50 60 Single Disk or JBOD for maximum configuration flexibility Its high data availability and protection derives from the following capabilities Online RAID Capacity Ex
6. pansion Array Roaming Online RAID Level Stripe Size Migration Global Online Spare Automatic Drive Failure Detection Automatic Failed Drive Rebuilding Disk Hot Swap Online Background Rebuilding Instant Availability Background Initialization Auto Reassign Sector Redundant Flash Image and Battery Backup Module Greater than Two TB Support allows for very large volume set applica tion in 64 bit environment such as data mining and managing large databases Maximum Interoperability The 6Gb s SAS RAID controller support broad operating system including Windows 8 Server 2012 R2 7 2008 Vista XP 2003 Linux Open Source FreeBSD Open Source Solaris Open Source Mac VMware and more along with key system monitoring features such as enclosure management Serial Bus amp SGPIO and SNMP function Our products and technology are based on extensive testing and validation process leverage Areca SAS or SATA RAID controller field proven compatibility with operating systems motherboards applications and device drivers Easy RAID Management The controllers contain an embedded McBIOS RAID manager that can access via hot key at M B BIOS boot up screen This pre boot McBIOS RAID manager can use to simplify the setup and management of RAID controller The controller firmware also contains a browser based McRAID storage manager which can be accessed through the Ethernet port or ArcHttp proxy server in Windows Linux FreeBSD an
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