Areca ARC-1214-4I 6 Gb/s SAS RAID Controller, 4 Internal Ports Max

ARC-12x4 internal PCIe 2.0 host RAID controllers are a cost-effective solutions for connecting up to 4/8 6Gb/s SAS peripheral devices. The RAID controllers are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven internal/external RAID controller and same device driver architecture with widely used 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID controller. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, near-line backup, security systems and streaming applications.

Features:

• Supports up to (8) 6Gb/s SAS,SATA or SSD drives
• Support up to 1GB DDR3-933 cache
• Support read/write cache allocation by policy
• Support optional battery backup module (BBM)
• Self-encrypting drive management
• SES2, SMP and SGPIO enclosure management
• Sedundant flash image for adapter availability
• Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10 (1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
• 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

Operating Systems:

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

Management Monitor

McRAID Storage Manager

• Web-based GUI management utility
• Remote configuration, monitoring, and notification
• Graphical-based management utility

McRAID Utility

• Command-line interface
• CIM provider for VMware
• API code support

McBIOS Configuration Utility

• Legacy configuration utility
• Flashable BIOS support

Monitors/Notification

• Global HDD activity/fault connector, individual activity/fault connector
• LCD/I²C connector and alarm buzzer
• SNMP
• SMTP