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Areca ARC-1886-8x8i (8 Port PCIe Gen 4.0 Tri-Mode RAID Adapters)

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Description

Areca ARC-1886-8x8i

 

Features:

  • Support up to 8GB DDR4-2666 cache
  • SFF-9402 compliant connector pin-out
  • Support read/write cache allocation by policy
  • Support up to 24 NVMe drives using PCIe switch
  • Redundant flash image for adapter availability
  • UBM, SES2, SMP and SGPIO enclosure management
  • Support up to (512) 12Gb/s SAS, SATA or SSD drives using SAS expanders
  • Support optional cache backup module (CBM) protection using SuperCap
  • Tri-mode interface at each drive ports-12Gb/s SAS/SATA/ Gen 4.0 PCIe (NVMe)
  • Controller level hardware encryption and self-encryption drive management
  • Support RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk
  • Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10 (1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
  • Broad operating support including Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and VMware

The new fourth generation ARC-1886 family offers advanced technology for increased performance and improved enterprise data protection. They were designed with 1.6 GHz dual core ROC processor, DDR4-2666 memory and PCIe 4.0 interface for the most performance-hungry database and IT applications. Based on the ARM A15 PCIe 4.0 x8 to SAS/SATA/PCIe RAID on Chip (ROC) controller, the ARC-1886 series RAID adapters can offer both PCIe Gen 4.0 host and 12Gb/s SAS/SATA/PCIe (NVMe) tri-mode storage interfaces.


RAID Features

  • RAID Levels - 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
  • Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10(1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
  • Support RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk
  • Multiple RAID selection
  • Configurable stripe size up to 1MB
  • Write-through or write-back cache support
  • Support read/write cache allocation by policy
  • Support HDD firmware update
  • Online array roaming
  • Online RAID level/stripe size migration
  • Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
  • 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 UNMAP command
  • S.M.A.R.T. support
  • Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
  • SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC)
  • Controller based hardware encryption function
  • SED (self-encryption drives) function support
  • Support backplanes based on the SFF-TA-1005 specification (UBM)
  • Redundant flash image for adapter availability
  • Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
  • Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID adapter clock over the onboard Ethernet port

Operating Systems

  • Microsoft Windows
  • Red Hat Linux, Centos Linux, SUSE Linux, Fedora, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • XenServer
  • unRAID
  • macOS
  • VMware ESXi

 

Interface 8 Lane PCIE 4.0

Physical Dimensions

LP-MD2: 167.65(L) x 64.41(H) mm

Ports

8 x internal & 8 x external

Drive Connectors

1 x SFF-8654 [x8]
2 x SFF-8644 [x4]

RAID-on-Chip Controller Tri-mode Dual Core ARM A15 1.6GHz ROC
Cache Memory 8GB on-board DDR4-2666 SDRAM with ECC Protection
Data Transfer Rate

Up to 12Gb/s SAS/SATA/Gen 4.0 PCIe (NVMe) per port

Drive Support

Up to 512 12Gb/s SAS or 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA HDDs/SSDs, using 12Gb/s SAS expander
Up to 24 NVMe drives through the PCIe switches

Cache Protection

ARC-1886-CBM

Power Consumption

Approximately 14 Watts

Operating Temperature 0 °C to 60 °C
Operating Humidity 10% to 85%