Areca ARC-1883x

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Areca ARC-1883x

8-External Port, Dual Core SAS/SATA PCIe3.0 x8 RAID Adapter Card

• 2 x SFF-8644 miniSAS Connectors.
• Dual Core RAID-on-Chip 1.2 GHz.
• PCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface.
• 2GB on-board DDR3-1866 SDRAM with ECC.
• RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD.

£ 769.95 | £ 923.94 inc VAT

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SKU: areca_arc-1883x
Category: SAS/SATA RAID PCIe Cards
Brand: Areca Technology
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Areca ARC-1883x

The new third generation ARC-1883 family offers advanced technology for increased performance and improved enterprise data protection. .

They were designed with 1.2 GHz dual core ROC processor, DDR3-1866 memory architecture and PCIe 3.0 interface for the most performance-hungry database and IT applications

Technical Specifications
Adapter Architecture • Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 1.2GHz processor.
• PCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface.
• 2GB on-board DDR3-1866 SDRAM with ECC (ARC-1883LP/1883i/1883x).
• One 240-pin DIMM socket for 2GB(default) up to 8GB DDR3-1866, 1Rx8, ECC module or 8GB DDR3-1600, 2Rx8, ECC module (ARC-1883ix series).
• Write-through or write-back cache support.
• Support up to 4/8/12/16/24 internal or 4/8 external 12Gb/s SAS ports.
• Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements.
• BIOS boot array support for greater fault tolerance.
• Supports up to 256 SATA or SAS devices using SAS expanders.
• Boot support for the uEFI host BIOS.
• NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log.
• Redundant flash image for controller availability.
• Flash-based or battery backup module (FBM/BBM) ready (Optional) Model: ARC-1883-BAT/ARC-1883-CAP/ARC-6120BA-T121-12G • RoHS compliant).
RAID Features RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD.
• Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10(1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100).
• Multiple RAID selection.
• Configurable stripe size up to 1MB.
• Support HDD firmware update.
• Online array roaming.
• Online RAID level/stripe size migration.
• Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously.
• Online volume set growth.
• Instant availability and background initialization.
• Support global and dedicated hot spare.
• Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding.
• Support for native 4K and 512 byte sector SAS and SATA devices.
• Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life.
• Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port.
• Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function.
• SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support.
• Controller level hardware encryption function support.
Monitors/Notification • System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, individual activity/fault connector, LCD/I2Cconnector and alarm buzzer.
• SMTP support for email notification.
• SNMP support for remote manager.
• Enclosure management (SES-2, SMP and SGPIO) ready.
RAID Management Field-upgradeable firmware in flash 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 manager, 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 (optional).
Operating System • Windows 10/8/Server2012/7/2008/Vista/Server 2003/XP.
• Linux.
• FreeBSD.
• VMware ( Driver 6.x support CLI in-band management utility).
• Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64.
• Mac OS X 10.5.x or Higher (EFI BIOS support).
Environmental Temperature: +5°c to +60°c
Humidity: 10% to 85%, non-condensing
Storage Temperature: -40°c to 70°c
Humidity: 5-90%, non-condensing

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In general, next working day delivery services (UK Mainland) are available on Areca equipment orders placed before 2pm (subject to stock availability).

We kindly advise you let us preconfigure each Areca RAID (as RAID5, RAID6 etc), so they arrive properly setup, ready to "plug'n'play".

This is a free service, and takes 1-2 days prior to shipping.

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