ARC-1280ML - 24 ports PCIe to SATA RAID HBA

24 ports PCI-Express to SATA II RAID controller. Areca high-performance PCI-Express bus to SATA RAID host adapters support 24 SATA ll peripheral devices on a single host adapter. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers including NAS, server RAID solutions, web server, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming and streaming applications server

Adapter Architecture:

• Intel 800MHz IOP341 I/O processor • PCI-Express X8 bus • One DIMM socket with default 512MB of DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection, Upgrade to 4GB from PCB 2.0. An ECC or non-ECC SDRAM module using X8 or X16 chip organization • Write-through or write-back cache support • Support up to 24 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 • Intel RAID 6 Engine to support extreme performance RAID 6 • NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log • Redundant flash image for adapter availability • Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready • ARC-6120BA-T113 • RoHS Compliant

RAID Features:

• RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6 (if RAID 6 engine supported) and JBOD • Multiple RAID selection • Array roaming • Online RAID level/stripe size migration • Online RAID capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously • Online Volume set growth • Instant availability and background initialization • Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuild • Greater than 2TB per volume set • Support S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin-up capable drives • Support spin down drives when not in use to extend service life (MAID) • Support NTP protocol to synchronize RAID controller clock over on-board Ethernet port

Monitors/Indicators:

• System status indication through HDD activity/fault connector, LCD Connector and alarm buzzer • SMTP support email notification • SNMP support for remote notification • I2C Enclosure management ready • Server chassis features the 36-ckt Mini-SAS connector (SFF-8087) on its SAS backplanes • http://www.aicipc.com/SAS/sas_server_sa10.asp

RAID Management:

• Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM • In-Band Manager • Hot key boot-up McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS • API library for customer to write its monitor utility • Support Command Line Interface (CLI) • Browser-based management utility via ArcHttp Proxy Server • Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility • Out-of-Band Manager • Firmware-embedded Browser-based RAID manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via on-controller Ethernet port • API library for customer to write its monitor utility • Push Button and LCD display panel

Software Drivers:

• Windows 7/2008/Vista/Server 2003/XP/2000 • Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, TurboLinux, CentOS, etc.) • FreeBSD • Novell Netware 6.5 • Solaris 10 x86/x86_64 • SCO UnixWare 7.x.x • Mac OS 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x (EFI BIOS support)