Areca ARC-1231ML/1261ML/1280ML User Manual

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ple, one drive might be 123.5 GB, and the other 120 GB. Areca 

drive Truncation mode Multiples Of 10G uses the same capac-

ity for both of these drives so that one could replace the other.

Multiples Of 1G: If you have 123 GB drives from different ven-

dors; chances are that the capacity varies slightly. For example, 

one drive might be 123.5 GB, and the other 123.4 GB. Areca 

drive Truncation mode Multiples Of 1G uses the same capacity 

for both of these drives so that one could replace the other. 

No Truncation: It does not truncate the capacity.

Use this feature to set the controller Ethernet port configuration. 

A customer doesn’t need to create a reserved space on the arrays 

before the Ethernet port and HTTP service are working. The firm-

ware-embedded Web Browser-based RAID manager can access 

it from any standard internet browser or from any host computer 

either directly connected or via a LAN or WAN with no software or 

patches required. 

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a protocol that 

lets network administrators manage centrally and automate the 

assignment of IP (Internet Protocol) configurations on a computer 

network. When using the Internet’s set of protocols (TCP/IP), in 

order for a computer system to communicate to another com-

puter system, it needs a unique IP address. Without DHCP, the 

IP address must be entered manually at each computer system.