Areca ARC-1214-4I

ARC-12x4 internal PCIe 2.0 host RAID controllers are a cost-effective solutions for connecting up to 4 6Gb/s SATA peripheral devices. The RAID controllers are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven internal/external RAID controller and same device driver architecture with widely used 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID controller. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, near-line backup, security systems and streaming applications. ARC-1214-4I support directly attached 4 internal 6Gb/s SATA ports via 1 SFF-8087 connector.

Adapter Architecture

ARM storage I/O processor 1GB on-board SDRAM with ECC

PCIe 2.0 x8 lanes host interface

Support up to 4 internal 6Gb/s SATA physical links

ARC-1214-4I supports up to 4 x 6Gb/s SATA HDDs

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 (Optional)

Model: ARC-6120BA-T121

RoHS compliant

RAID Features

RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6 Single Disk or JBOD

Multi-level RAID 0 and RAID 10 (R00 and R100)

Support up to 1MB stripe size

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

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

Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function

SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support

Monitors/Indicators

System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, individual fault connector, LCD/serial bus connector and alarm buzzer

SMTP support for email notification

SNMP support for remote manager

Enclosure management (Serial bus 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 8/2012/7/2008/Vista/XP/2003

Linux

FreeBSD

VMware (only driver package available w/o management utility)

Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64

Mac OS 10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x/10.8.x