Areca ARC-1882IX-12 Dual Core 6G SAS 2.0 Full Height Raid Card. The 6Gb/s SAS RAID controllers raise the standard to higher performance levels with several enhancements including new high performance dual core ROC Processor, a DDR3-1333 memory architecture and high performance PCIe 2.0 x8 lane host interface bus interconnection. The ARC-1882ix-12/16/24 controllers each include one 240-pin DIMM socket with default 1GB of ECC DDR3-1333 single rank registered SDRAM, upgrade to 4GB. 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.

Highlights

Supports up to (128) 6Gb/s SAS, SATA or SSD drives using 6Gb/s SAS expanders
6Gb/s throughput at each drive ports
Support up to 4GB DDR3-1333 cache (ARC-1882ix-12/16/24)
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
Greater than 2TB capacity per disk drive support
Support greater than 2TB per volume set and battery backup module (BBM)
SES2, SMP and SGPIO enclosure management
Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life.
Broad operating support including Windows, Linux (open source), FreeBSD(open source), Soaris(open source), Mac and VMware

Detail

Adapter Architecture

Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 800 MHz processor
PCIe 2.0 x8 lane host interface
One 240-pin DIMM socket for DDR3-1333 ECC single rank registered SDRAM module using x8 or x16 chip organization, upgrade from 1GB (default) to 4GB (ARC-1882ix-12/16/24)
Write-through or write-back cache support
Support for 8 external 6Gb/s 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
Support EFI BIOS for Mac Pro
NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
Redundant flash image for controller availability
Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready (Option)
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/Indicators

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
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
Support push button and LCD display panel (option)

Operating System

Windows 7/2008/Vista/XP/2003
Linux
FreeBSD
VMware
Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
Mac OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x

Environmental Specifications

Operating:
Temperature: +5°c to +60°c
Humidity: 15-80% non-condensing

Electrical

Power Dissipation:
12V +3.3V
28.81W (26.91W+1.9W)