Areca Technology Corporation

Taiwan

SATA RAID HBAs

	PCI-X to SATA ll
--	PCIe to SATA ll
	PCIe to SATA ll (Intel IOP341)
	PCIe x1

SAS RAID HBAs

Mezzanine Board

SAS Non-RAID HBAs

External RAID Controllers

JBOD/Expander Box

Desktop RAID Subsystem

Internal RAID Rack


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Relatived Resource

	ARC-1x00/1xx0ML Series DataSheet
	SATA RAID Series Manual

ARC-1210/1220
(4/8-port PCIe to SATA ll RAID Adapters)

The ARC-12X0 SATA ll RAID host adapter is a high-performance PCI-Express bus to SATA ll Disk Array host adapter. The controller can provide up to 4 or 8 SATA ll peripheral devices on a single host adapter. When properly configured, the SATA host adapter can provide non-stop service with a high degree of fault tolerance through the use of RAID technology and advanced array management features. Intel IOP333 processor has integrated the RAID 6 engine inside. It offers Areca the advantage of reduced engineering and development costs, by having the New RAID6 function build-in and integrated part saves on component costs and internal PCI bandwidth. Intel emphasis on architectural commonality in IOPs allows Areca developers to capitalize on their existing code base.

The 4/8 port Serial ATA RAID Host adapter is low-profile PCI cards-ideal for 1U or 2U rack-mount system. It is used the same RAID kernel of its field-proven external RAID controller.

ARECA PCI-Express RAID Card Comparison
Model Name	ARC-1210	ARC-1220
RAID Processor	IOP333
Host Bus Type	PCI-Express X8
RAID 6 Support	YES	YES
Cache Memory	256MB	256MB
Driver Support	4*SATA ll	8*SATA ll

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Adapter Architecture

ARC-1210/1220 uses IntelR IOP333 I/O processor

PCI-Express X8 bus

256MB on-board DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection

Write-through or write-back cache support

Support up to 4/8 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

Intel RAID 6 Engine to support extreme performance RAID 6

NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log

Redundant flash image for adapter availability

Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready
ARC-6120BA-T112

RoHS Compliant

RAID Features

RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6 and JBOD

Multiple RAID selection

Array roaming

Online RAID level/stripe size migration

Online RAID capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously

Instant availability and background initialization

Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuild

Greater than 2TB per disk drive (From firmware version 1.49)

Greater than 2TB per volume set

Support S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin-up capable drives

Support spin down drivers when not in use to extend service life (MAID)

Monitors/Indicators

System status indication through HDD activity/fault connector, LCD Connector and alarm buzzer

SMTP support email notification

SNMP support for remote notification

I2C Enclosure management ready

RAID Management

Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM

In-Band Manager

Hot key boot-up McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS

Support controller's API library for customer to write its own AP

Support Command Line Interface (CLI)

Browser-based management utility via ArcHttp Proxy Server

Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility

Disk Stress Test (DST) utility for production in Windows

Out-of-Band Manager

Push Button and LCD display panel

Software Drivers

Windows 7/2008/Vista/Server 2003/XP/2000

Redhat Linux and SuSE Linux

FreeBSD

Solaris 10x86

UnixWare 7.1.x

Netware 6.5

Mac OS 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x (EFI BIOS support)

Environmental/Physical

Mechanical

Dimension:	ARC-1210/1220: 64(H) x 168(L) mm

SATA Interface:	ARC-1210/1220(Multi-layer SATA connector)

Environmental Specifications

Operating:	Temperature:+5°c to +50°c
	Humidity: 15-80%
	non-condensing

Storage Temperature:	Temperature:-40°c to 70°c
	Humidity: 5-90%
	non-condensing

Electrical

Power Requirements:	On 3.3 V: 4.95W
	On+12V: 6.22W

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