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Serial ATA Host Adapter
for PCI-E
• Two external Mini-SAS ports
• 3 Gb/s per port SATA II controller
• Native PCI Express® (PCI-e) x8 host bus interface for high-performance applications
• Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC) support for compatibility with all SATA drives
• Supports Mac OS® X and Windows® XP RAID
• Uses Intel 800Mhz IOP348 processor
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Support up to 8 SAS ports
• Hot-swap drive support
• Mac and Windows support
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Highest Performance RAID 6 Card
Areca high-performance PCIe/PCI-X to SAS RAID host adapter can provide up to (128) SAS/SATA ll peripheral devices using SAS expanders. The adapters are based on the same RAID kernel of 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.
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Mac Compatible Models
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- PowerMac G5, Mac Pro or PC with PCI Express (PCI-e) x8 slot
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Technical Specifications
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SOFTWARE
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| Operating System Requirements |
• Mac OS X Version 10.4.8 or later (no_bootable)
• Windows XP SP2
• Linux
• FreeBSD
• Novell Netware 6.5
• Solaris 10x86/x86_64
• SCO Unixware 7.x.x
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| HARDWARE |
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| Bus Type |
• PCI-e x 8 |
| External Connectors |
• 2 x Mini-SAS |
| Drives Supported |
• Up to 128 |
| Data Transfer Rate |
• Up to 3 GB per second per port |
| ATAPI Support |
• No |
| Drive Types Supported |
• Serial ATA I & II
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| Advanced Features |
• RAID level 0, 1,1E, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60 or JBOD
• Multiple RAID selection
• 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
• Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuilding
• Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
• Disk Scrubbing/ Array verify scheduling for automatic repair of all configured raid sets
• Support spin down drives when not in use to extend service life (MAID)
• Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port
• Automatic detect eight internal ports or four internal & four external ports (ARC-1680/1681)
• Up to (128) SAS or 3Gb/s SATA II drives using SAS expanders
• Up to 3Gb/s per port
• Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
• Hot key boot-up McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS
• Support controller's API library for customer to write its own AP
• Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Browser-based management utility via ArcHttp Proxy Server
• Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
• Disk Stress Test (DST) utility for production in Windows
• FIS-based switching controller
• Spread Spectrum Clocking for compatibility with all SATA drives and lower EMI emissions
• Bus Mastering frees CPU from data I/O handling
• 48-bit LBA support for drives larger than 137 GB
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| Warranty |
• 3-year limited warranty |
| FIRMWARE |
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• Flash-ROM upgradeable to latest firmware version |
| PACKAGE CONTENTS |
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• Quick Start Guide |
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