Areca ARC-1216-4I (LSI3108) SAS3 RAID (0/1/5/6/10/50/60) 1×8643, 1GB, PCI-E8 g3, LP

Detailed information

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The main advantage of Areca controllers is sophisticated outband management. Areca RAID controllers are equipped with a separate Ethernet port, so the controller can be easily accessed using the web interface or the command line via a LAN network (out-band management). SAP (Single Admin Portal) enables the management of multiple ARECA controllers within one network from a single administration console.

Areca controllers can be administered through the built-in McBIOS manager available at boot or through the McRAID manager with its own web console, which allows you to create and change arrays locally and remotely, and monitor the status.

Another advantage is the support of SNMP traps, which the controller sends in a "human" readable form, and the support of the SNMP MIB tree for reading logged data using third-party tools (Nagios)

Controller architecture

1.2GHz dual core PowerPC processor LSI 3108
PCI-Express x8 bus (g3)

integrated 1GB DDR3 cache (no expansion possible)

cache backup via ARC-1883-CAP and ARC-1883-BAT
up to 4 SAS/sATA 12Gbs drives (expanders are supported for the ARC-188x series)

low-profile (MD2) design

cache backup via ARC-1883-CAP and ARC-1883-BAT

RAID properties

RAID0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD

strip size up to 1MB

Multiple RAID sections

Ability to change field size, RAID level, stripe size on the fly

Possibility of simultaneous migration (change of RAID level) and capacity increase on the fly

Online array roaming

S.M.A.R.T support and NCQ

support 4kn and 512k sectors

Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function

SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support

Controller level hardware encryption function support

Field management:

McBIOS on boot

McRAID with web interface

Single Admin Portal (SAP) tracking utility

API library for developing your own applications

CLI (command line interface)

firmware integrated RAID manager operable via web browser, also SMTP manager, SNMP agent

Supported operating systems:

Windows 10/8/Server 2012/7/2008/Vista/XP/2003

VMware ESX (unmanaged drivers only)

Linux (drivers from kernel 2.6.38)

FreeBSD

Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64

MAC OS X 10.4 and higher