Areca high-performance ARC-1680 series PCIe to SAS RAID host controller can provide up to (128) SAS/SATA ll peripheral devices using SAS expanders. The controllers are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven external RAID adapter and same device drivers with widely used SATA RAID controller. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming applications.
Key Features
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 Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuilding Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support) Disk scrubbing/ array verify scheduling for automatic repair of all configured RAID sets Support spin down drives when not in use (MAID) Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port
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Adapter Architecture
Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready. ARC-6120BA-T1xx, xx means version no.
BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance
BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support
Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
Redundant flash image for adapter availability
Support 4 to 24 internal and 4 to 8 external SAS ports
Support extreme performance RAID 6 function
Support write-through or write-back cache
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Cache
512MB
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Compatible Operating Systems
Apple Mac OS 10.4.x
Apple Mac OS 10.5.x
FreeBSD
Linux
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP
Novell Netware 6.5
Sun Solaris 10x86
Unixware 7.x.x
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Controller/IOP
Intel IOP348
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Drive Support
SAS
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Input/Output
8 x SAS ports
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Interface
PCI-E x8
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Manufacturer
Areca
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Monitors/Indicators
I2C Enclosure management ready
SMTP support email notification
SNMP support for remote notification
System status indication through HDD activity/fault connector, LCD Connector and alarm buzzer
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Operating Temperature
-5°C ~ +50°C
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RAID Management
API library for customer to write monitor utility
Disk Stress Test (DST) utility for production in Windows
Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
Firmware-embedded Browser-based RAID manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent, and Telnet function
Hot key boot-up McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS
Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
Support Push Button and LCD display panel
Web browser-based McRAID storage manager via ArcHttp proxy server utility
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RAID Support (SAS)
JBOD Support
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 3
RAID 5
RAID 6
RAID 10E
RAID 30
RAID 50
RAID 60
Single Disk
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Regulatory
RoHS
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Storage Temperature
-40°c ~ 70°c