Areca ARC-1280ML 24 Port PCIe SATA Host RAID Controller Card

Description

Adapter Architecture: Write-through or write-back cache support Support up to 24 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, 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 Online Volume set growth 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 drives when not in use to extend service life (MAID) Support NTP protocol to synchronize RAID controller clock over on-board Ethernet port RAID Management: Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM In-Band Manager: Hot key boot-up McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS API library for customer to write its monitor utility Support Command Line Interface (CLI) Browser-based management utility via ArcHttp Proxy Server Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility Out-of-Band Manager: Firmware-embedded Browser-based RAID manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via on-controller Ethernet port API library for customer to write its monitor utility Software Drivers Windows 2000/XP (Scsiport Driver) Windows Server 2003 (Scsiport Driver and Storport Driver) Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, TurboLinux, CentOS, etc.) FreeBSD Novell Netware 6.5 Solaris 10 x86/x86_64 SCO UnixWare 7.x.x Mac OS X (no_bootable)