Areca ARC-1216-4I SAS RAID Adapter, 12G 3.0PCI-e 3.0 x 8 Low Profile

ARC-12x6 internal PCIe 3.0 host RAID controllers are a cost-effective solutions for connecting up to 4/8 12Gb/s SAS peripheral devices. The 12Gb/s SAS is designed for backward compatibility with 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA hard drives. The 12Gb/s SAS interface supports both 12Gb/s SAS disk drives for data-intensive applications and 6Gb/s SATA drives for low-cost bulk storage of reference data. The ARC-12x6 series default support 1GB on-board DDR3-1600 SDRAM memory.

Features

• Support up to 1GB DDR3-1600 cache
• SGPIO and Series Bus enclosure management
• Support read/write cache allocation by policy
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• Supports up to (8) 12Gb/s SAS,SATA or SSD drives
• Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10 (1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
• Support RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk
• Controller level hardware encryption and self-encrypting drive management
• Support optional flash-based backup module (FBM) protection using SuperCap or battery
• 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
• Firmware built-in EFI Shell to launch configuration utility

Monitors/Notification

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