Description
Product Highlights
✵ Supports up to (8) 6Gb/s SATA or SSD drives
✵ Support up to 1GB DDR3-1066 cache
✵ Support read/write cache allocation by policy
✵ Support optional battery backup module (BBM)
✵ Self-encrypting drive management
✵ SGPIO enclosure management for ARC-1203-4i/8i
✵ Redundant flash image for adapter availability
✵ Support RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk
✵ Broad operating support including Windows, Linux (open source),FreeBSD (open source), Soaris (open source), Mac and VMware
PCIe 2.0 to SATA RAID Adapter
ARC-1203 series internal PCIe 2.0 host RAID controllers are the cost-effective solutions for connecting 2/4/8 6Gb/s SATA peripherial devices. Areca’s ARC-1203 series entry-level RAID controllers cover the spectrum of wild range storage requirements for cost-sensitive applications that require robust data protection. The 2/4/8 port configurations are aimed at high-availability and capacity oriented applications, such as security systems, surveillance, multimedia content generation, large-volume data capturing, mail servers and entry-level database systems.
| ARC-1203 Series 6Gb/s SATA RAID Adapters | |||
| ARC-1203-2i | ARC-1203-4i | ARC-1203-8i | |
| Host Bus Interface | 1-Lane PCI Express® 2.0 | 4-Lane PCI Express® 2.0 | |
| Ports | 2 x internal | 4 x internal | 8 x internal |
| Drive Connectors | 2 Discrete SATA latch connector | 1 x SFF-8087 | 2 x SFF-8087 |
| Data Transfer Rate | Up to 6Gb/s per port | ||
| Drive Support | Up to 2 x SATA HDDs/SSD | Up to 4 x SATA HDDs/SSD | Up to 8 x SATA HDDs/SSD |
| Cache Memory | 512MB on-board DDR3-1066 SDRAM | 1GB on-board DDR3-1066 SDRAM with ECC protection | |
| Physical Dimensions | Low Profile: 134(L) x 64(H)mm | Low Profile: 168(L) x 64.4(H) mm | |
| BBM Support | ARC-6120BA-T121-12G | ||
| Power Dissipation | Typical: 8W | Typical: 10W | Typical: 11W |
| Operating Temperature | 0 °C to 60 °C with 200 LFM airflow | ||
| Operating Humidity | 10% to 85%, non-condensing | ||
| RAID Levels | RAID level 0, 1 and Single Disk | RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60 and Single Disk | |
| RAID-on-Chip Controller | ARM_based storage I/O processor@ 1.066 GHz | ||
RAID Features:
- 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
- SED (self-encrypting drives) function support
- Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
- SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support
- 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
Operating Systems
- Native OS NVMe Host Drivers (Host Interface=NVMe Mode)
- Microsoft Windows
- Red Hat Linux, Centos Linux, SUSE Linux, Fedora, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux
- OpenBSD
- XenServer
- unRAID Sun Solaris
- FreeBSD
- macOS
- VMware ESXi
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