Areca ARC-1201 8-port SATA II PCI-Express x1 RAID Adapter

Areca ARC-1201 8-port SATA II PCI-Express x1 RAID Adapter

ARECA P/N: ARC-1201

Mounting bracket: Full Height

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No software, cables or other accessories included. Comes with full height mounting bracket only.

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Manufacturer's description and specifications:

ARC-1201 - (8-port PCIe x1 to SATA RAID Adapter)


The Areca ARC-1201 SATA RAID adapter is a PCIe x1 bus to 8 x SATA disk array adapter. The ARC-1201 has two internal SFF-8087 ports and supports up to 8 SATA ll peripheral devices. It uses the same RAID kernel of its field-proven external RAID controller. When properly configured, the SATA RAID adapter can provide a high degree of performance and fault tolerance with data mirroring for maximum protection. The ARC-1201 is the industry's most compelling PCIe x1 to SATA ll RAID solution which economically delivers full-featured true hardware RAID to desktop and workstations as well as entry-level servers.

Specifications:

Model Name: ARC-1201

Host Bus Type: PCIe x1

RAID Level Support: 0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, Single Disk and JBOD

Driver Support: 8 x SATA ll

Internal Disk Connector: 2x SFF-8087

External Disk Connector: N/A

Lan Port: YES

Architecture

• 400MHz storage I/O processor
• PCI-Express x1 bus
• 128 MB DDR2 400 SDRAM
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Support up to 8 SATA ll drives
• Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
• BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance
• BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS bootspecification) support
• NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• RoHS compliant

RAID Features

• RAID level 0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, Single Disk and JBOD
• Multiple RAID selection
• Online array roaming
• Online RAID level/stripe size migration
• Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
• Instant availability and background initialization
• Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuilding
• Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
• Greater than 2TB per disk drive support
• S.M.A.R.T disk drive monitoring for reliability

Monitors/Indicators

• System status indication through HDD activity/fault connector and alarm buzzer
• SMTP support for email notification
• SNMP support for remote Manager

Inband enclosure management ready

• RAID Management
• Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
• In-Band Manager
• Web browser-based McRAID Storage manager via Http Proxy Server
• Hot key “boot-up” McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS
• Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Support controller's API library for customer to write its own AP
• Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
• HDD Stress Test (HST) utility for production

Out-of-Band Manager

• Firmware-embedded Browser-based RAID manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via Ethernet port
• Support controller's API library for customer to write its own AP

Operating System

• Windows 8/Server2012/7/2008/Vista/Server 2003/XP
• RedHat Linux
• SuSE Linux
• FreeBSD
• VMware (only driver package available w/o management utility)
• Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
• Mac OS 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x/10.8.x (EFI BIOS support)