ARC-1203

Back To Shop Starting Price: $849.00 ARC-1203 series internal PCIe 2.0 host RAID controllers are the cost-effective solutions for connecting 2/4/8 6Gb/s SATA peripherial devices. Areca’s ARC-1203 series entry-level RAID controllers cover the spectrum of wild range storage requirements for cost-sensitive applications that require robust data protection. The 2/4/8 port configurations are aimed at high-availability and capacity oriented applications, such as security systems, surveillance, multimedia content generation, large- volume data capturing, mail servers and entry-level database systems. READ MORE ARC-1226-8i quantity Add to cartOnline Purchases and Pricing are for the US only. For International Purchases and Support Please Contact Us. Image represented in photograph is stock; customizations will render each system unique.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Product Highlights:

• Supports up to (8) 6Gb/s SATA or SSD drives
• Support up to 1GB DDR3-1066 cache
• Support read/write cache allocation by policy
• Support optional battery backup module (BBM)
• Self-encrypting drive management
• SGPIO enclosure management for ARC-1203-4i/8i
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• Support RAID 1 – Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk
• Broad operating support including Windows, Linux (open source),FreeBSD (open source), Soaris (open source), Mac and VMware

PRODUCT COMPARISON

	ARC-1203-2i	ARC-1203-4i	ARC-1203-8i
RAID-on-Chip Controller	ARM_based storage I/O processor@ 1.066 GHz
Cache Memory	512 MB on-board DDR3-1066 SDRAM with ECC protection (from Engineering Version D)	1GB on-board DDR3-1066 SDRAM with ECC protection (from Engineering Version E)
Host Bus Interface	1-Lane PCI Express® 2.0	4-Lane PCI Express® 2.0
Ports	2 x internal	4 x internal	4 x internal
Drive Connectors	2 Discrete SATA latch connector	1 x SFF-8087	2 x SFF-8087
Data Transfer Rate	Up to 6Gb/s per port
Drive Support	Up to 2 x SATA HDDs/SSD	Up to 4 x SATA HDDs/SSD	Up to 8 x SATA HDDs/SSD
Physical Dimensions	Low Profile: 134(L) x 64(H)mm	Low Profile: 168(L) x 64.4(H) mm
Power Dissipation	Typical: 8W	Typical: 10W	Typical: 11W
Operating Temperature	0 °C to 60 °C with 200 LFM airflow
Operating Humidity	10% to 85%, non-condensing
BBM Support	ARC-6120BA-T121-12G
RAID Levels	RAID level 0, 1 and Single Disk	RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60 and Single Disk
RAID Features	Multiple RAID selection Configurable stripe size up to 1MB Support HDD firmware update Online array roaming Online RAID level/stripe size migration Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously Online volume set growth SED (self-encrypting drives) function support Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support Instant availability and background initialization Support global and dedicated hot spare Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding Support for native 4K and 512 byte sector SAS and SATA devices Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port

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