Areca ARC-1886-8X 8 Port PCIe Gen 4.0 Tri-Mode RAID Adapter

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.

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