Datasheet

ARC-1882ix-12/16/24
SAS 2.0 is designed for much higher speed data transfer than previous available and
backward compatibility with SAS 1.0. The 6Gb/s SAS interface supports both 6Gb/s
and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA disk drives for data-intensive applications and 6Gb/s or 3Gb/s
SATA drives for low-cost bulk storage of reference data. The ARC-1882 family
includes 8 ports low profile as well as full height 12/16/24 internal ports with additional
4 external ports models.
Highlights
Supports up to (128) 6Gb/s SAS,
SATA or SSD drives using 6Gb/s
SAS expanders
6Gb/s throughput at each drive
ports
Support up to 4GB DDR3-1333
cache (ARC-1882ix-12/16/24)
Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10(1E)
support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
Online capacity expansion, RAID
level/stripe size migration
Online volume set growth
Redundant flash image for adapter
availability
Greater than 2TB capacity per disk
drive support
Support greater than 2TB per
volume set and battery backup
module (BBM)
SES2, SMP and SGPIO enclosure
management
Support intelligent power
management to save energy and
extend service life.
Broad operating support including
Windows, Linux (open source),
FreeBSD(open source),
Soaris(open source), Mac and
VMware
Maximum Interoperability
Unparalleled Performance
Unsurpassed Data Availability
The 6Gb/s SAS RAID controllers raise the
standard to higher performance levels with several
enhancements including new high performance
dual core ROC Processor, a DDR3-1333 memory
architecture and high performance PCIe 3.0/2.0 x8
lane host interface bus interconnection. The low
profile controllers by default support on-board 1G
of ECC DDR3-1333 SDRAM memory. The
ARC-1882ix-12/16/24 controllers each include one
240-pin DIMM socket with default 1GB of ECC
DDR3-1333 single rank registered SDRAM,
upgrade to 4GB. The optional battery backup
module provides power to the cache if it contains
data not yet written to the drives when power is
lost. The test result is against overall performance
compared to other 6Gb/s SAS RAID controllers.
The powerful new ROC processors integrated 8
6Gb/s SAS ports on chip delivers high perfor-
mance for servers and workstations.
As storage capacities continue to rapidly increase,
users need greater level of disk drive fault
tolerance, which can be implemented without
doubling the investment in disk drives. The RAID6
can offer fault tolerance greater that RAID 1 or
RAID 5 but only consumes the capacity of 2 disk
drives for distributed parity data.
The 6Gb/s SAS RAID controllers with extreme
performance RAID 6 engine installed provide the
highest RAID 6 feature to meet this requirement.
The controller can concurrently compute two
parity blocks and get very similar RAID 5
performance.
The 6Gb/s SAS RAID controllers can also provide
RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60,
Single Disk or JBOD for maximum configuration
flexibility. Its high data availability and protection
derives from the following capabilities: Online
RAID Capacity Expansion, Array Roaming, Online
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(16-28 Ports 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Adapters )
The 6Gb/s SAS RAID controller support broad
operating system including Windows
7/2008/Vista/XP/2003, Linux (Open Source),
FreeBSD (Open Source), Solaris (Open Source),
Mac, VMware and more, along with key system
monitoring features such as enclosure manage-
ment (SES-2, SMP, & SGPIO) and SNMP function.
Our products and technology are based on
extensive testing and validation process; leverage
Areca SAS or SATA RAID controller field-proven
compatibility with operating systems, mother-
boards, applications and device drivers.
Easy RAID Management
The controllers contain an embedded McBIOS
RAID manager that can access via hot key at M/B
BIOS boot-up screen. This pre-boot McBIOS RAID
manager can use to simplify the setup and
management of RAID controller. The controller
firmware also contains a browser-based McRAID
storage manager which can be accessed through
the Ethernet port or ArcHttp proxy server in
Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and more environ-
ments. The McRAID storage manager allows local
and remote to create and modify RAID set, volume
set, and monitor RAID status from standard web
browser. The Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor
utility can support one application to scan multiple
RAID units in the network.
RAID Level / Stripe Size Migration, Global Online
Spare, Automatic Drive Failure Detection,
Automatic Failed Drive Rebuilding, Disk Hot-Swap,
Online Background Rebuilding, Instant
Availability/Background Initialization, Auto
Reassign Sector, Redundant Flash Image and
Battery Backup Module. Greater than Two TB
Support allows for very large volume set applica-
tion in 64-bit environment such as data-mining and
managing large databases.
ARC-1882ix-12/16/24
( 8 Ports 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Adapters)
ARC-1882i/1882x/1882LP