Areca ARC-1230 Leaflet

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HIGHLIGHTS
The SATA RAID controllers raise the 
standard to higher performance levels with 
several enhancements including Intel high-
performance I/O Processor, a new DDR 
memory architecture (DDR333) and high 
performance PCI-X/Express bus 
interconnection. The ARC-1x10/1x20 
default supports 256MB on-board ECC 
DDR333 SDRAM memory. The ARC-
1x30/1x60/1170 series support one 
SODIMM socket with default 256MB of ECC 
DDR333 SDRAM, upgrade to 1GB. 
Areca ML connector controllers come with 
Multi-lane Internal connectors for high 
capacity industrial environments. The 
controllers include a highly reliable, locking 
cable/connector system that combines 4 
SATA ports into one on the controller side, 
available in 16 or 12-port configurations. 
Areca ARC-1130ML/1160ML2 controllers 
increase reliability, simplify installation and 
routing. 
The Areca SATA RAID controller support 
broad operating system including 
Windows® Server 2003, Windows XP, 
Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux (Open 
Source), SuSE Linux (Open Source), and 
FreeBSD (Open Source) and other 
operating systems,  along with key system 
monitoring features such as I2C enclosure 
management, and SNMP function.
As storage capacities continue to rapidly 
increase, users need greater level of disk 
drive fault tolerance, which can be 
implemented without doubling the 
investment in disk drives. The RAID 6 can 
offer fault tolerance greater that RAID 1 or 
RAID 5 but only consumes the capacity of 2 
disk drives for distributed parity data. The 
SATA RAID controllers with extreme 
performance RAID 6 engine supported 
provide the highest RAID 6 feature to meet 
this requirement. The controller can 
concurrently compute two parity blocks and 
get  comparable with RAID 5 performance.
The SATA RAID controllers can also provide 
RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 and JBOD RAID 
for maximum configuration flexibility. Its 
high data availability and protection derives 
from the following capabilities: Online RAID 
Capacity Expansion, Array Roaming, Online 
RAID Level/Stripe Size Migration, Global 
Online Spare, Automatic Drive Failure 
Detection, Automatic Failed Drive 
Rebuilding, Disk Hot-Swap, Online 
Background Rebuilding, Instant Availability/ 
Background Initialization, Auto Reassign 
sector, and Battery Backup. During the 
controller firmware upgrade flash process, it 
is possible for a problem to occur resulting 
in corruption of the controller firmware.
With our Redundant Flash image feature the 
The BIOS contains an embedded McBIOS 
RAID manager that can access via hot key 
at BIOS boot-up screen. This pre-boot RAID 
manager can use to simplify the setup and 
management of RAID controller. The 
controller firmware also contains and 
browser-based McRAID storage manager 
that can access through the Http Proxy 
server in Windows, FreeBSD and Linux 
environment. The McRAID manager allows 
local and remote to create and modify RAID 
set, volume set, and monitor RAID status 
from standard web browser. The Single 
Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility can 
support one application to scan multiple 
RAID units in the network. 
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Supports up to 4, 8, 12, 16 
and 24 Serial ATA drives on 
a single host adapter
SATA  II 300MB/s speed at 
each SATA II drive ports
New Internal Multi-lane 
Connector for maximum 
reliability
Intel RAID Engine to 
support highest speed 
RAID 6
Online Capacity expansion, 
RAID level/stripe size 
migration
Online Volume Set growth
Redundant flash image for 
adapter availability
Support Greater than 2TB 
per Volume set and battery 
backup module (BBM)
Broad operating system 
support including Windows, 
Linux (open source) and 
FreeBSD (open source)
ARECA high-performance PCI-X/Express bus to SATA RAID host adapter 
supported 4,8,12,16, 24 SATA ll peripheral devices on a single host 
adapter. SATA RAID controller has the same RAID kernel of its field-
proven external RAID controller. Applications that benefit most features 
from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, 
supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming 
applications server. 
controller will revert back to the last known 
version of firmware and continue operating. 
This reduces the risk of system failure due 
to firmware crash. Greater than 2 TB 
support allows for very large volume set 
application in 64-bit environment such as 
data-mining and managing large databases.
Unparalleled Performance
Integrated Solutions
Maximum Interoperability
Unsurpassed Data Availability
Easy RAID Management