Areca ARC-1221x SATA2 PCI-E 8-Port 256MB External RAID Controller

• Mfr Part Number:ARC-1221X
• System Architecture:
• Intel 800 MHz IOP341 I/O processor with SAS controller
• 256MB on-board DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection
• Support write-through or write-back cache
• Support up to 8 SATA II drives
• 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 extreme performance RAID 6 function
• NVRAM for RAID configuration & transaction log
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• Battery Backup Module ready (Option)
• RoHS Compliant
• RAID Features:
• RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6 (if RAID 6 engine supported)
• Multiple RAID selection
• Array roaming
• Online RAID level/stripe size migration
• Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
• Instant availability and background initialization
• Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuilding
• Greater than 2TB per volume set
• Disk scrubbing/ array verify scheduling for automatic repair of all configured RAID sets
• Support spin down drives when not in use (MAID)
• Support S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin-up capable drives
• Host Connectivity: PCI-Express x8 lane width host interface
• Monitors/Indicators:
• System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, individual fault connector, LCD/I2C connector and alarm buzzer
• SMTP support for email notification
• SNMP support for remote manager
• 12C Enclosure management ready
• RAID Management:
• Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
• In-Band Manager:
• Hot key "boot-up" McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS
• Support controller's API library for customer to write its own AP
• Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Browser-based management utility via ArcHttp Proxy Server
• Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
• Disk Stress Test (DST) utility for production
• Out-of-Band Manager:
• Support Push Button and LCD display panel
• Host Bus Type: PCI-Express x8
• Driver Connector: 2x SFF-8088
• Operating System: Windows 2000/ XP/ Server 2003/ Vista; Linux; FreeBSD; Novell Netware 6.5; Solaris 10 x86/ x86_64; SCO Unixware 7.x.x; Mac OS X 10.x (EFI BIOS Support)
• Form Factor: Low Profile