Areca ARC-1231ML Areca Controller Card Arc 1231ml 12 Port Pci Express To Sata Ii Raid Multi Lane Retail

Areca Controller Card ARC-1231ML 12-Port PCI Express to SATA II RAID Multi-lane Retail

Areca high-performance PCI-Express bus to SATA RAID host adapters support 12 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 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

o Intel 800MHz IOP341 I/O processor

o PCI-Express X8 bus

o One DIMM socket with default 512MB of DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection, Upgrade to 4GB from PCB 2.0. An ECC or non-ECC SDRAM module using X8 or X16 chip organization

o Write-through or write-back cache support

o Support up to 12/16/24 SATA II drives

o Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements

o BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance

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

o Intel RAID 6 Engine to support extreme performance RAID 6

o NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log

o Redundant flash image for adapter availability

o Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready ARC-6120BA-T112

o RoHS Compliant