Areca ARC-1883i 8 Port SAS RAID Adapter

Product Overview 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-1883i includes 8 ports low profile mini SAS HD connectors for 12Gb/s throughput on each port. Features • Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 1.2GHz processor
• PCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface
• 2GB on-board DDR3-1866 SDRAM with ECC
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Support up to 8 internal 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
• RoHS compliant
• RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
• 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
• 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
• 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

Operating System
• Windows 10/8/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 10.5.x or Higher (EFI BIOS support)