Areca ARC-1882I 8-Port Low Profile PCI-Express x8 SAS/SATA RAID Controller w/ 1GB ECC Cache

Specifications

• Mfr Part Number: ARC-1882I
• I/O Processor: Dual Core RAID-on-Chip 800MHz
• On-Board Cache: 1GB DDR3-1333 SDRAM
• Host Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.0 x8
• Driver Connector: 2x SFF-8087
• Drive Support: 8x 6Gb/s SAS/SATA HDDs
• Adapter Architecture:
  • PCIe 3.0/2.0 x8 lane host interface (PCB version 3.0 supports PCIe 3.0 x8 lanes)
  • 1GB on-board DDR3-1333 SDRAM with ECC
  • Write-through or write-back cache support
  • 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
  • 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
  • Online array roaming
  • Offline RAID set
  • 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
  • Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port
• 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 (SES-2, SMP and SGPIO) 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
    • Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
  • 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
• Operating System:
  • Windows 8/ 7/ Vista/ XP/ 2008/ Server 2003/ Server 2012
  • Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • VMware
  • Solaris 10/ 11 x86/ x86_64
  • Mac OS X 10.4.x/ 10.5.x/ 10.6.x/ 10.7.x/ 10.8.x
• Power Dissipation: 12.51W (11.6W + 0.91W), 12V + 3.3V
• Form Factor: Low Profile
• Dimensions (LxH): 169.5 x 64.4 mm