• Supports up to (128) 6Gb/s SAS, SATA or SSD drives using 6Gb/s SAS expanders
• 6Gb/s throughput at each drive ports
• Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10(1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
• Online capacity expansion, RAID level/stripe size migration
• Online volume set growth
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• Greater than 2TB capacity per disk drive support
• Support greater than 2TB per volume set and battery backup module (BBM)
• SES2, SMP and SGPIO enclosure management
• Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life.
• Broad operating support including Windows, Linux (open source), FreeBSD(open source), Soaris(open source), Mac and VMware

Detail

Adapter Architecture

• Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 800 MHz processor
• PCIe 2.0 x8 lane host interface
• 1GB on-board DDR3-1333 SDRAM with ECC (ARC-1882LP/1882i/1882x)
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Support for 4 internal and 4 external 6Gb/s SAS ports
• 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
• Support EFI BIOS for Mac Pro
• NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
• Redundant flash image for controller availability
• Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready (Option)
• 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
• Online array roaming
• Offline RAID set
• 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
• Greater than 2TB capacity per disk drive support
• Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
• Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
• 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 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
• Support 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 (option)

Operating System

Environmental Specifications

• Operating:
  Temperature: +5°c to +60°c
  Humidity: 15-80% non-condensing

Electrical

• Power Dissipation:
  12V +3.3V
  12.51W (11.6W+0.91W)