System Architecture

• Intel 800MHz IOP348 I/O processor with SAS controller
• PCIe x8 link host interface
• 256MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection
• 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
• Intel RAID engine 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, 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60 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 to extend service life (MAID)
• Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port

Disk Bus Interface

• Up to 4/8 SAS/SATA II HDDs (no expander capability )
• Up to 3Gbps per drive 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 (Serial bus 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 Http proxy server
• 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)