Owner manual

INTRODUCTION
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• Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultane-
ously
• Online volume set growth
• Instant availability and background initialization
• Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding
• Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
• Support spin down drives when not in use to extend service life
(MAID)
• Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the
on board Ethernet port
Monitors/Notication
• System status indication through global HDD activity/fault con-
nector, individual activity/fault connector, LCD/I2C connector and
alarm buzzer
• SMTP support for email notication
• SNMP support for remote manager
• Enclosure management (SES2, SMP and SGPIO) ready
RAID Management
• Field-upgradeable rmware in ash 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
• Firmware-embedded web browser-based McRAID storage man-
ager, 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)
Operating System (Same as Areca SATA ll RAID adapter eld-
proven device drivers)
• Windows 2000/XP/server 2003/Vista
• Linux
• FreeBSD