Areca ARC-1680ix-8 8-Port Low Profile PCI-Ex8 512MB SAS RAID Controller, Open Box

• Mfr Part Number: ARC-1680ix-8
• Adapter Architecture:
• Intel 1.2 GHz IOP348 I/O processor with SAS controller
• PCI-Express x8 bus
• 512MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection for low profile board
• Support write-through or write-back cache
• Support upto 8x SAS ports
• 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
• Intel RAID engine support extreme performance RAID 6 function
• NVRAM for RAID configuration & transaction log
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready
• RoHS Compliant
• RAID Features:
• RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60 or JBOD
• Multiple RAID selection
• 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 to extend service life (MAID)
• Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port
• RAID Management:
• Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
• In-Band Manager:
• Hot key "boot-up" McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS
• Web browser-based McRAID Storage manager via Http 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
• Disk Stress Test (DST) utility for production
• Out-of-Band Manager:
• Firmware-embedded Web browser-based McRAID Storage manager, SMTP manager and SNMP agent and Telnet function via Ethernet port
• API library for customer to write monitor utility
• Support Push Button and LCD display panel
• Disk Bus Interface:
• Automatic detect eight internal ports
• Upto 128x SAS or SATA II drives using SAS expanders
• Upto 3Gb/s per port
• Host Connectivity: PCI-Express x8
• External Connector: 2x SFF-8087; 1x 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
• Dimension (HxL): 62 x 210 mm
• Package: Open Box