Product Highlights
✵ SES2, SMP and SGPIO enclosure management
✵ Support read/write cache allocation by policy
✵ Redundant flash image for adapter availability
✵ Support up to 8GB DDR3-1866 cache (ARC-1883ix-12/16/24)
✵ Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10 (1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
✵ Support RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk
✵ Supports up to (512) 12Gb/s SAS,SATA or SSD drives using SAS expanders
✵ Controller level hardware encryption and self-encrypting drive management
✵ Support optional flash-based backup module (FBM) protection using SuperCap or battery
✵ DataBolt™ Bandwidth Optimizer for balance faster hosts and slower SAS or SATA devices. (For ARC-1883ix)
✵ Broad operating support including Windows, Linux (open source),FreeBSD (open source), Soaris (open source), Mac and VMware
12 Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Controllers
The new third generation ARC-1883 family offers advanced technology for increased performance and improved enterprise data protection. They were designed with 1.2 GHz dual core ROC processor, DDR3-1866 memory architecture and PCIe 3.0 connectivity for the most performance-hungry data center and IT applications. The ARC-1883 family includes 8 ports low profile as well as full height 12/16/24 internal ports with additional 4 external ports with mini SAS HD connectors for 12Gb/s throughput on each port.
| ARC-1883 Series 12Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Adapters | |||
| ARC-1883i | ARC-1883LP | ARC-1883x | |
| Host Bus Interface | 8-Lane PCI Express® 3.0 | ||
| Ports | 8 x internal | 4 x internal & 4 x external | 8 x external |
| Drive Connectors | 2 x SFF-8643 | 1 x SFF-8643 & 1 x SFF-8644 | 2 x SFF-8644 |
| Data Transfer Rate | Up to 12Gb/s per port | ||
| Drive Support | Up to 512 12Gb/s SAS or 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA HDDs/SSD, using 12Gb/s SAS Expander | ||
| Cache Memory | 2GB on-board DDR3-1866 SDRAM | ||
| Physical Dimensions | Low Profile: 169.5(L) x 64.4(H) mm | ||
| Power Dissipation | Typical: 14.4W | ||
| Operating Temperature | 0 °C to 60 °C | ||
| Operating Humidity | 10% to 85%, non-condensing | ||
| RAID Levels | 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD | ||
| RAID-on-Chip Controller | Dual Core RAID on Chip (ROC) @ 1.2 GHz | ||
| FBM/BBM Support | ARC-1883-CAP / ARC-6120BA-T121-12G | ||
RAID Features
- Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10(1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
- Support RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk
- 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
- 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
- Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
- SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support
- Controller level hardware encryption function support
Operating Systems
- Native OS NVMe Host Drivers (Host Interface=NVMe Mode)
- Microsoft Windows
- Red Hat Linux, Centos Linux, SUSE Linux, Fedora, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux
- OpenBSD
- XenServer
- unRAID
- Solaris
- FreeBSD
- macOS
- VMware ESXi
Management Monitor
McRAID Storage Manager
- Web-based GUI management utility
- Remote configuration, monitoring, and notification
- Graphical-based management utility
McRAID Utility
- Command-line interface
- CIM provider for VMware
- API code support
McBIOS Configuration Utility
- Legacy configuration utility
- Flashable BIOS support
- Firmware built-in EFI Shell to launch configuration utility
Monitors/Notification
- Global HDD activity/fault connector, individual fault connector
- LCD/I²C connector and alarm buzzer
- SNMP
- SMTP
