Areca ARC-1231ML SATA RAID 6 Controller

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Specifications of the Areca ARC-1231ML

Adapter Architecture

Intel IOP333 I/O processor

PCI-Express X8 bus

One DDR2 DIMM socket

256MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection

Write-through or write-back cache support

Support up to 4/8/12/16 SATA II drives

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

Intel RAID 6 Engine to support extreme performance RAID 6

NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log

Redundant flash image for adapter availability

Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready

RoHS Compliant

RAID Features

RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6 (if RAID 6 engine supported) and JBOD

Multiple RAID selection

Array roaming

Online RAID level/stripe size migration

Online RAID capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously

Instant availability and background initialization

Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuild

Greater than 2TB per volume set

Support S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin-up capable drives

Support spin down drivers when not in use to extend service life (MAID) Monitors/Indicators

System status indication through HDD activity/fault connector, LCD Connector and alarm buzzer

SMTP support email notification

SNMP support for remote notification

I2C Enclosure management ready

Software Drivers

Windows 2000/XP (Scsiport Driver)

Windows Server 2003 (Scsiport Driver and Storport Driver)

Redhat Linux and SuSE Linux

FreeBSD

Solaris 10x86

UnixWare 7.1.x

Netware 6.5