La technologie SAS 2.0 est conçu pour fournir une vitesse de transfert de données sans égales  et reste retro compatible avec la technologie précédente SAS 1.0. L’interface  6 Gb/ s SAS prend en charge les disques durs 6 Gb/ s et également les 3 Gb /s SAS / SATA.

Adapter Architecture  

• Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 800 MHz processor  
• PCIe 2.0 x8 lane host interface  
• 1GB on-board DDR3-1333 SDRAM with ECC (ARC-1882LP/1882i/1882x)  
•  One 240-pin DIMM socket for DDR3-1333 ECC single rank registered SDRAM module using x8 or x16 chip organization, upgrade from 1GB (default) to 4GB (ARC-1882ix-12/16/24)
• Write-through or write-back cache support  
• Support up to 4/8/12/16/24 internal or 4/8 external 6Gb/s SAS ports
• 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 controller availability  
• Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready (Option)  
• RoHS compliant      

 RAID Features  

• RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD  
• Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10(1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
• 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  
• Support global and dedicated hot spare
• 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)
• Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
• Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port Monitors/Notification  
• System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, individual activity/fault connector, LCD/I2C, connector and alarm buzzer

• SMTP support for email notification  
• SNMP support for remote manager  
• Enclosure management (SES-2, SMP and SGPIO) read

 RAID Management

• Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM   In-Band Manager
• Hot key "boot-up" McBIOS RAID manager via M/B BIOS
• Web browser-based McRAID storage manager via ArcHttp proxy server for all operating systems  
• Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
• API library for customer to write monitor utility
• Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
• Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM  

Out-of-Band Manager

• Firmware-embedded web browser-based McRAID storage manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via Ethernet port
• API library for customer to write monitor utility
• Support push button and LCD display panel (option)

Operating System  

• Windows 7/2008/Vista/XP/2003
• Linux
• FreeBSD  
• VMware  
• Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64  
• Mac OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x