ARC-1883x
(8 Ports 12Gb/s SAS RAID Controller)

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-1883 family includes 8 ports low profile as well as full height 12/16/24 internal ports with additional 4 external ports with mini SAS HD connectors for 12Gb/s throughput on each port.

Adapter Architecture

• Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 1.2 GHz processor
• PCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface
• 2GB on-board DDR3-1866 SDRAM with ECC (ARC-1883LP/1883i/1883x)
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Supports up to 4/8 internal or 4/8 external 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
• Flash-based or battery backup module (FBM/BBM) ready (Optional)
  -Model: ARC-6120-121
• RoHS compliant

RAID Features

• RAID Level 0,1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
• Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10 (1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
• 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/Notifications

• 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

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
• Supports 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 / Server 2012 / 7 / 2008 / Vista / Server 2003 / XP
• Linux
• FreeBSD
• VMware (only driver package available w/o management utility)
• Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
• Mac OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x/10.8.x/10.9.x