Areca ARC-1215-4i ARC-1215-4I Leaflet

•  Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 800 MHz processor
•  PCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface    
•  1GB on-board DDR3-1333 SDRAM with ECC
•  Support up to 4/8 internal or 4/8 external 6Gb/s SAS ports
•  Write-through or write-back cache support
•  ARC-1215-4i/4x supports up to 4 x 6Gb/s SAS/SATA HDDs
•  ARC-1225-8i/8x supports up to 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 adapter availability
•  Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready (optional)
•  RoHS compliant

•  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 1024KB
•  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
•  Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
•  SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support
•  Controller level hardware encryption function support
•  Support firmware level Hdd Xfer speed test

•  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 (Serial Bus and SGPIO) ready

•  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)

•  Windows 8/server 2012/7/2008/Vista/XP/2003
•  Linux 
•  FreeBSD
•  VMware (only driver package available w/o management)
•  Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
•  Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

Adapter Architecture

Monitors/Notification

Operating System

RAID Features

RAID Management

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This specification may be changed at any time without prior notice.

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 ARC-1215-4i                                        ARC-1215-8i                                          ARC-1215-4x                                      ARC-1215-8x  

Model Name
I/O Processor

Host Bus Type

Drive Connector 

Drive Support

RAID Level

On-Board Cache

Management Port

Enclosure Ready

Form Factor (H x L)

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In-Band: PCIe / Out-of-Band: BIOS, LCD (Optional) and LAN Port

In-Band: PCIe / Out-of-Band: BIOS and LCD (Optional)

External Serial Bus

  

PCIe 3.0 x 8 Lanes

0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, Single Disk  or JBOD

0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, 

Single Disk  or JBOD 

0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, Single Disk or JBOD

0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, 

Single Disk  or JBOD 

1GB on-board DDR3-1333 SDRAM with ECC

Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 800 MHz Processor

1 x SFF-8087                                         2 x SFF-8087                                        1 x SFF- 8088                                      2 x SFF-8088

4 x SAS/SATA                                       8 x SAS/SATA                                       4 x SAS/SATA                                      8 x SAS/SATA

64.4 (H) x 169.5 (L) mm

Individual Activity/Faulty Header, Serial Bus and SGPIO