ARC-1213-4x/1223-8x
(4/8-Port PCIe 2.0 External SAS/SATA RAID Controllers)

SAS builds on parallel SCSI by providing higher performance,
improving data availability, and simplifying system design. The
SAS interface supports both SAS disk drives for data-intensive
applications and Serial ATA (SATA) drives for low-cost bulk storage of reference data. The ARC-1213-4x/ARC-1223-8x support directly attach 4/8 SAS ports via 1/2 external SFF-8088 connector. Each port on the SAS controllers supports SAS and/or SATA devices. Since there is no expander support on those boards, this can meet the customer inquiry SAS solution (using same enclosure) to replace SATA solution.

Low Profile PCI RAID Card
Model name
ARC-1213-4x
ARC-1223-8x
I/O Process
RAID-on-Chip 800MHz
On-Board Cache
512MB ECC DDR2-800 SDRAM
Host Bus Type
PCIe 2.0 x 8 Lanes
Driver Connector
1xSFF-8088
2xSFF-8088
Drive Support
4 x SAS/SATA HDDs
8 x SAS/SATA HDDs
RAID Level
0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, Single Disk or JBOD
0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
Form Factor
Low Profile

Architecture



800MHz RAID-on-Chip (ROC) processor
PCIe 2.0 x8 lane host interface
Support up to 4/8 internal 6Gb/s SAS physical links
ARC-1213-4x/8x supports up to 4/8 x 6Gb/s SAS/SATA HDDs
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
Support EFI BIOS for Mac Pro
NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
Redundant flash image for controller availability
Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready (Option)
RoHS compliant

RAID Features
RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
Multiple RAID selection
Online array roaming
Offline RAID set
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
Greater than 2TB capacity per disk drive support
Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
Support intelligent power management to save energy and
extend service life
Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port

Monitors/Indicators
System status indication through global HDD activity/fault con-
nector, individual activity/fault connector, LCD/I2C connector 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

Operating System
Windows 7/2008/Vista/XP/2003
Linux
FreeBSD
VMware
Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
Mac OS 10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x

Environmental/Physical
Mechanical

Dimension: ARC-1213-4x/1223-8x: 62(H) x 168(L) mm

Environmental Specifications
Operating: Temperature:+5°c to +60°c
Humidity: 15-80%
non-condensing

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

Electrical
Power Dissipation: 12V +3.3V
ARC-12x3 series: 12.1W (9.6W+2.5W)

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