Areca ARC-1883LP

The new third generation ARC-1883 family offers advanced technology for increased performance and improved enterprise data protection. They were designed with 1.2 GHz dual core ROC processor, DDR3-1866 memory architecture and PCIe 3.0 interface for the most performance-hungry database and IT applications. The ARC-1883 family includes 8 ports low profile as well as full height 12/16/24 internal ports with additional 4 external ports with mini SAS HD connectors for 12Gb/s throughput on each port.

Adapter Architecture

Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 1.2GHz processor
* PCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface
* 2GB on-board DDR3-1866 SDRAM with ECC (ARC-1883LP/1883i/1883x)
* Write-through or write-back cache support
* Support up to 4/8 internal or 4/8 external 12Gb/s SAS ports
* Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
* BIOS boot array support for greater fault tolerance
* Supports up to 256 SATA or SAS devices using SAS expanders
* Boot support for the uEFI host BIOS
* NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
* Redundant flash image for controller availability
* Flash-based or battery backup module (FBM/BBM) ready (Optional)
Model: ARC-1883BA-T100/ARC-6120BA-T121-12G


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
* Configurable stripe size up to 1MB
* Support HDD firmware update
* 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
* Support global and dedicated hot spare
* Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding
* Support for native 4K and 512 byte sector SAS and SATA devices
* Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
* Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port
* Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
* SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support
* Controller level hardware encryption function support


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
* 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 (optional)

Operating System
* Windows 8/Server2012/7/2008/Vista/Server 2003/XP
* Linux
* FreeBSD
* VMware (only driver package available w/o in-band management utility)
* Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
* Mac OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x/10.8.x/10.9.x