ARC-1680ix-12-R, Refurbished, 1 year warranty

ARC-1680ix-12 is a 12 ports PCIe SAS/SATA RAID Adapterwith Expander. Areca high-performance ARC-1680 series PCIe to SAS RAID host controller can provide up to (128) SAS/SATA ll peripheral devices using SAS expanders. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming applications.

System Architecture:

• Intel Dual Core 1200 MHz IOP348 I/O processor for RAID core and SAS microcode • 512MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection • One 240-pin DDR2-533 DIMM socket with default 512MB of SDRAM with ECC protection, upgrade to 4GB • Support write-through or write-back cache • Support 4 to 24 internal and 4 to 8 external 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 extreme performance RAID 6 function • NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log • Redundant flash image for adapter 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 selection • 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 • 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 (MAID) • Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port

Disk Bus Interface:

• 12 internal/SAS ports and 4 external SAS ports • Up to (128) SAS or SATA II drives using SAS expanders • Up to 3Gb/s per port

Host Connectivity:

• PCIe 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 • Enclosure management (SES2,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 utility • 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

Operating System:

• Windows 7/2008/Vista/Server 2003/XP/2000 • Linux • 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)

Environmental/Physical:

Mechanical dimension: • ARC-1680ix-12/16/24: 98.4(H) x 237.5(L) mm

Environmental Specifications:

• Operating: Temperature:+5°c to +50°c • Humidity: 15-80% • non-condensing

Storage Temperature:

Temperature:-40°c to 70°c • Humidity: 5-90% • non-condensing

Electrical:

• Power Requirements: 1.10W max. +3.3V • 10.92W max. +12V