Low Profile PCI RAID Card

Model name

ARC-1212

ARC-1222

I/O Process

Intel IOP348 800MHz

RAID Level Support

0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, Single Disk or JBOD

0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, 30,50,60, Single Disk or JBOD

On-Board Cache

DDR2-533 256MB

Driver Support

4 x SAS/SATA HDDs

8 x SAS/SATA HDDs

Internal Disk Connector

1xSFF-8087

2xSFF-8087

Host Bus Typ

PCIe x8

Form Factor

Low Profile

Lan Port

1x

1x

Hardware Specifications

Adapter Architecture

Intel 800MHz IOP348 I/O processor with SAS controller

PCIe x8 link host interface

256MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection

Support write-through or write-back cache

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 engine support extreme performance RAID 6 function

NVRAM for RAID configuration & transaction log

Redundant flash image for adapter availability

Battery Backup Module ready (Option)

RoHS Compliant

RAID Features

RAID level 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60 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 to extend service life (MAID)

Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port

Disk Bus Interface

Up to 4/8 SAS/SATA II HDDs
(no expander capability )

Up to 3Gbps per drive 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 (Serial bus and SGPIO) ready

RAID Management

Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM

In-Band Manager

Hot key "boot-up" McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS

Web browser-based McRAID storage manager via Http proxy server

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

Software Specifications

Operating System 

Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista

Linux

FreeBSD

Novell Netware 6.5

Solaris 10 x86/x86_64

SCO Unixware 7.x.x

Mac OS X 10.x (EFI BIOS Support)

Environmental/Physical

Mechanical

Environmental Specifications

Electrical