Areca ARC-1680LP PCI-Express X8 SAS Controller Card
Areca high-performance ARC-1680 series PCIe to SAS RAID host controller can provide up to (128) SAS/SATA ll peripheral devices using SAS expanders. The controllers are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven external RAID adapter and same device drivers with widely used SATA RAID controller. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS. server RAID solutions. web servers. supercomputing. near-line backup. security systems and streaming applications. Specifications Type SAS External Connectors 1 x SFF-8088 Internal Connectors 1 x SFF-8087 Interface PCI-E x8 Transfer Rate Up to 3Gb/s Cache Memory 256MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection for low profile board RAID 0. 1. 10. 3. 5. 6. 30. 50. 60. Single Disk or JBOD Operating Systems Supported Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 Linux FreeBSD Novell Netware 6.5 Solaris 10X86/X86_64 SCO Unixware 7.X.X Mac OS 10.X Features Features Intel 667 MHz IOP348 I/O processor with SAS controller PCIe x8 Link host interface Support up to 8 SAS portsMulti-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:Multiple RAID selection 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) Support 4K bytes/sector for Windows up to 16 TB per volume set 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 Monitors/Indicators:System status indication through Global HDD activity/fault connector. Individual fault connector. LCD/I2C connector and alarm buzzerSMTP support for email notificationSNMP support for remote Manager Enclosure management (SES and SGPIO) readyRAID Management:Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM In-Band ManagerHot key 'boot-up' McBIOS RAID manager via BIOSWeb browser-based McRAID Storage manager via Http Proxy Server for all operating systemsSupport Command Line Interface (CLI)API library for customer to write monitor utilitySingle Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utilityDisk Stress Test (DST) utility for production