ARC-1210/1220/1230/1260

4/8/12/16 ports PCI-Express to SATA II RAID Adapters

Tekram services customers with a complete spectrum of SATA-II RAID adapters that support 4, 8,12 or 16 SATA-II devices on a single host adapter with today maximum I/O performance PCI bus interface, PCI-X and PCI-Express.

Unparalleled Performance
The SATA-II RAID controllers raise the standard to higher performance levels with several enhancements including Intel high-performance I/O Processor (500 MHz), a new DDR memory architecture (DDR333) and high performance PCI-Express bus interconnection.

Unsurpassed Data Availability
The SATA-II RAID adapters with extreme performance ASIC RAID 6 engine installed provide the highest RAID 6 feature to and delivers RAID 5 performance. The SATA-II RAID adapters can also provide RAID levels 0, 1 (0+1), 3, 5, 6 and JBOD RAID for maximum configuration flexibility and data availability.

Maximum Interoperability
ARC SATA-II RAID adapters support broad operating systems include Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux (Open Source), SuSE Linux (Open Source), and FreeBSD.

Easy RAID Management
The controller firmware also contains McBIOS RAID manager can access via hot key at BIOS boot-up screen and browser-based McRAID manager that can access from local and remote through the Http Proxy server in Windows, Linux, FreeBSD environment.

• Proven Areca RAID 6 engine with RAID level 0,1 (0+1), 3, 5, 6, and JBOD
• Flexible RAID
  Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
  Online Dynamic Volume expansion - volume set, capacity, RAID level, stripe size migration
• Online hot swap: Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding
• Automatically and transparently rebuilds hot spare drives
• Redundant Flash Image(firmware), transaction log, and S.M.A.R.T. function for drives to improve the RAID system    integrity, reliability, and availability
• Greater than 2TB per volume set to support 64-bit LBA OS
• Advanced management and configuration utilities
  Web browser-based RAID manager via HTTP PROXY for windows, Linux & FreeBSD environment
  I 2C Enclosure management ready

Adapter Architecture
• Intel 80331 I/O Processor (500MHz)
• PCI-Express X8 bus
• 128MB on-board DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection
• One SODIMM socket to support DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection, Upgrade to 2GB for ARC-1260 model
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Support up to 4/8/16 SATA-II drives
• 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
• Tekram's new Areca polynomial ASIC to support extreme performance RAID 6 engine(except for ARC-1210)
• NVRAM for RAID configuration & transaction log
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready (Option)

RAID Features
• RAID level 0, 1(0+1), 3, 5, 6 and JBOD
• Multiple RAID selection
• Online Array roaming
• Online RAID level/stripe size migration
• Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
• Instant availability and background initialization
• Automatic insertion/removal detection and rebuild
• Greater than 16TB per volume set(64-bit LBA support)
• S.M.A.R.T disk drive monitoring for reliability
• Support Staggered Spin-up capable drives

Monitors/Notification
• System status indication through HDD activity/fault connector, LCD Connector and alarm buzzer
• SMTP support email notification
• I 2C Enclosure management ready

RAID Management
• Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
• Web browser-based RAID manager and SNMP agent via HTTP PROXY for Windows, Linux & FreeBSD system
• Hot key boot-up RAID manager via BIOS
• Support Comment Line Interface (CLI)
• Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
• HDD Stress Test (HST) utility for production

Operating System
• Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003
• Debian3.0-r2
• Mandrake-9.0
• Redhat- 7.3,8.0,9.0
• Redhat -AS-3.0
• Redhat -AS-4.0-i386
• Redhat -AS-4.0-x86-64
• Redhat-FC2-i386
• Redhat-FC2-x86-64
• Redhat-FC3-i386
• Redhat-FC3-x86-64
• Suse-7.3
• Suse-9.0-SLES-i386
• Suse-9.0-SLES-x86-64
• Suse-9.1-Professional
• FreeBSD4.2.R,4.4.R
• FreeBSD5.2.1
• FreeBSD5.3 R-amd64
• FreeBSD5.3 R-i386

Mechanical
Form Factor: PCI Half Length
Dimension (H X L):
ARC-1210/1220: 64mm x 168mm
ARC-1230/1260 98.4mm x 214mm
SATA Interface:
ARC-1210/1220/1230/1260: (2/4/6/8 multi-layer SATA latch connector )
(2X 4/8/12/16 ) header for fault LED connector
(2X 4/8/12/16 ) header for activity LED connector
(2X4) header for LCD & enclosure management connector
(2X6) header for Battery Backup Module (BBM) connector

Environment
Operating Temperature: + 5 ° C to + 50 ° C
Operating Humidity: 15-80%, non-condensing
Storage Temperature: -40 ° Cto 70 ° C
Storage Humidity: 5-90%, non-condensing

Electrical
Power Requirements: 2.5W max. on +5 V
                                  6.75W max. on +3.3 V
                                  2.5W max. on +12V

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