Areca ARC-1880ixl-12, PCI-e, 12/4-port 6Gb/s SAS RAID controller

Areca high-performance ARC-1880 series PCIe 2.0 to 6Gb/s SAS RAID adapter can provide up to (128) 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA/SSD peripheral devices using 6Gb/s SAS expanders. The adapters are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven external RAID adapters and same device drivers with widely used SAS/SATA RAID adapters. Applications that benefit most features from these adapters include NAS, server RAID solutions, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems, streaming and cloud computing applications.

Model

Brand

areca

Model

ARC-1880ix-12

Specifications

Type

SATA / SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)

External Connectors

1 x SFF-8088 mini-SAS

Internal Connectors

3 x SFF-8087 mini-SAS

Interface

PCI-Express 2.0 x8

Transfer Rate

Up to 6Gb/s

Cache Memory

1GB

RAID

0, 1,1E, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60 or JBOD

Operating Systems Supported

Windows 7/2008/Vista/XP/2003
Linux
FreeBSD
Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64
Mac OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x
VMware 4.0

Features

Features

800 MHz RoC for RAID core and SAS microcode
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
RoHS Compliant

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