All stock codes associated to this product
ARC1680X, ARC-1680X
Areca high-performance ARC-1680 series PCIe to SAS RAID host controller can provide up to (128) SAS/SATA ll peripheral devices using SAS expanders. The controllers are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven external RAID adapter and same device drivers with widely used SATA RAID controller. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming applications.
System Architecture
Intel Dual Core 800/1200 MHz IOP348 I/O processor for RAID core and SAS microcode
256MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection (ARC-1680LP/1680i/1680x)
512MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection (ARC-/1680ix-8)
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 ready (Option)
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 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista
Linux
FreeBSD
Novell Netware 6.5
Solaris 10 x86/x86_64
SCO Unixware 7.x.x
Mac OS 10.4.x/10.5.x (EFI BIOS support)
Environmental/Physical
Mechanical
Dimension:
ARC-1680-i/1680LP/1680x: 62(H) x 168(L) mm
ARC-1680ix-8: 62(H) x 210(L) mm
ARC-1680ix-12/16/24: 98.4(H) x 227.5(L) mm
Environmental Specifications
Operating:
Temperature:
+5°c to +50°c
Humidity:
15-80% non-condensing
Storage Temperature:
Temperature:
-40°c to 70°c
Humidity: 5-90% non-condensing
Electrical
Power Requirements:
1.10W max. +3.3V
10.92W max. +12V
