Areca ARC-1280ML / ARC-1280D-ML 24x Serial ATA-II 3.0Gbps PCI-Express x8 Raid Controller Card

Overview

Areca high-performance PCI-Express bus to SATA RAID host adapters support 12, 16 and 24 SATA ll peripheral devices on a single host adapter. SATA RAID controller has the same RAID kernel of its field-proven external RAID controllers. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers including NAS, server RAID solutions, web server, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming applications server. The ML version comes with Min SAS 4i internal connector. This Min SAS 4i (SFF-8087) connector has eight signal pins to support four SATA drives and six pins for the SGPIO (Serial General Purpose Input/Output) side-band signals. The SGPIO bus is for efficient LED management and for sensing drive locate status, without any discrete fault & activity cable needed.

 

Specifications

Model Number:  ARC-1280ML

Brand:  Areca

Alt. Part Number(s):  ARC-1280D-ML

Type:  Controller Card

 

Technical Description

Brand:  Areca

Model:  ARC-1280ML / ARC-1280D-ML

Type:  SATA II (3.0Gb/s)

Internal Connectors:  24 x SATA II

Interface:  PCI-Express x8

Cache Memory:  One DIMM socket with default 256MB of DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection, Upgrade to 2GB. An ECC or non-ECC SDRAM module using X8 or X16 chip organization

RAID:  RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 (if RAID 6 engine supported) and JBOD

 

Features

Intel 800MHz IOP341 I/O processor

Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements

BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support

NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log 

RoHS Compliant

 

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