ARC-1880i/1880x/1880ixl-8/12
(8-16 Ports 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Adapters)

ARC-1880ix-12/16/24
(16-28 Ports 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Adapters)

Adapter Architecture

• 800 MHz RoC for RAID core and SAS microcode
• 512MB on-board DDR2-800 SDRAM with ECC protection (ARC-1880i/1880x/1880ixl-8/1880ixl-12)
• One DDR2-800 socket with default 1GB, upgrade to 4GB (ARC-1880ix-12/16/24)
• Support write-through or write-back cache
• 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
• Support EFI BIOS for Mac Pro
• NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• Battery Backup Module ready (Option)
• ARC-6120BA-T112 (ARC-1880i/LP/x/ixl-8/ixl-12)
• ARC-6120BA-T113 (ARC-1880ix-12/16/24)
• RoHS Compliant

RAID Features

• RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
• Multiple RAID selection
• Online array roaming/Offline RAID set
• 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 capacity per disk drive support
• Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
• Disk scrubbing/ array verify scheduling for automatic repair of all configured RAID sets
• Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
• Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board LAN port

Disk Interface

• 4/8/12/16/24 internal and/or 4/8 external 6Gb/s SAS ports
• Up to (128) 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA/SSD drives using 6Gb/s SAS expanders
• Up to 6Gb/s per SAS port

Host Connectivity

• PCIe 2.0 x8 lane compliant

Monitors/Indicators

• System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, individual fault connector, LCD/I2C connector and alarm buzzer
• SMTP support email notification
• SNMP support for remote notification
• Enclosure management (SES-2, SMP and SGPIO) ready

RAID Management

• Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
• In-Band Manager
• Hot key boot-up McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS
• Web browser-based McRAID storage manager via ArcHttp proxy server utility
• Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
• API library for customer to write monitor utility
• Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
• Disk Stress Test (DST) utility for production
• Out-of-Band Manager
• Firmware-embedded web browser-based McRAID storage manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via LAN port
• API library for customer to write monitor utility
• Support Push Button and LCD display panel

Software Drivers

• Windows 7/2008/Vista/XP/2003
• FreeBSD
• Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
•  Mac OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x
• VMware 4.x