ARC-1882 Series

Areca ARC-1882 series specifications

Adapter Architecture

• • Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 800 MHz processor

  • PCIe 3.0/2.0 x8 lane host interface (PCB version 3.0 supports PCIe 3.0 x8 lanes)

  • 1GB on-board DDR3-1333 SDRAM with ECC (ARC-1882LP/1882i/1882x)

  • One 240-pin DIMM socket for DDR3-1333 ECC single rank registered SDRAM module using x8 or x16 chip organization (1Rx8 or 1Rx16), upgrade from 1GB (default) to 4GB (ARC-1882ix-12/16/24)

  • Write-through or write-back cache support

  • Support up to 4/8/12/16/24 internal or 4/8 external 6Gb/s SAS ports

  • 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) 

  • ARC-6120BA-T121

  • 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

  • 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/Notification

• • System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, 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

  • Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM

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 (option)

Operating System

• • Windows 7/2008/Vista/XP/2003

  • Linux

  • FreeBSD

  • VMware

  • Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64

  • Mac OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x

Environmental Specifications

• • Operating Temperature:+5°c to +60°c

  • Operating Humidity: 15-80% (non-condensing)

  • Storage Temperature: -40°c to 70°c

  • Storage Humidity: 5-90% (non-condensing)

Electrical

• • Power Dissipation: 12V+3.3V

  • ARC-1882i/x/LP: 12.51W (11.6W+0.91W)

  • ARC-1882ix-12/16/24: 28.81W (26.91W+1.9W)