System Architecture

•  Intel Dual Core 1200 MHz IOP348 I/O processor for RAID core and SAS microcode
•  512MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection (ARC-1680LP PCB1.0/1680i PCB 1.0/1680x PCB 2.0)
•  512MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection (ARC-/1680ix-8/1680ix-12/16l)
• One 240-pin DDR2-533 DIMM socket with default 512MB of SDRAM with ECC protection, upgrade to 4GB (ARC-1680ix-12/16/24)
• Support write-through or write-back cache
• Support 4 to 24 internal and 4 to 8 external 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 extreme performance RAID 6 function
• NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready (option)ARC-6120BA-T112
• RoHS Compliant

 RAID Features

•  RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
•  Multiple RAID selection
•  Online 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 (MAID)
•  Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port

Disk Bus Interface

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

 Host Connectivity

                               PCIe x8 lane width host interface

 Monitors/Indicators

• System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, individual fault connector, LCD/I2C connector and alarm buzzer
• SMTP support for email notification
• SNMP support for remote manager
• Enclosure management (SES2,SMP and SGPIO) ready

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 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 and SNMP agent and Telnet function via Ethernet port
• API library for customer to write monitor utility
• Support Push Button and LCD display panel

Operating System

                               Windows 7/2008/Vista/Server 2003/XP/2000

                               Linux

                               FreeBSD

                               Novell Netware 6.5

                               Solaris 10 x86/x86_64

                               SCO Unixware 7.x.x

                               Mac OS 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x (EFI BIOS support)