Controller Architecture
• 800MHz RAID-on-Chip (ROC) processor
• PCIe 2.0 x8 lane host interface
• Support up to 4/8 internal 6Gb/s SAS physical links
• ARC-1213-4i/4x supports up to 4 x 6Gb/s SAS/SATA HDDs
• ARC-1223-8i/8x supports up to 8 x 6Gb/s SAS/SATA HDDs
• 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
Operating Systems
• Windows 7/2008/Vista/XP/2003
• Linux
• FreeBSD
• VMware
• Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
• Mac OS 10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x
RAID features
• RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
• Multiple RAID selection
• Online array roaming
• Offline RAID set
• Online RAID level/stripe size migration
• Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultane- ously
• 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/Notification
• 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 (ARC-1213-4i and ARC-1223-8i)
• 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)
Environment Specification
Humidity 15%~80%, non-condensing
Operating Temperature +5°C~50°C
Dimension
Physical Dimensions/mm (Width x Height) 168 x 62
Form Factor Low Profile
