ARC-1216-4I
4 Port PCIe 3.0 12Gb/s SAS RAID Adapter
1x Internal SFF-8643 Port
The Areca ARC-1216-4i is a 4-Port PCIe 3.0 RAID controller that delivers cost-effective solutions for connecting up to 4x 12Gb/s SAS/SATA drives. The 12Gb/s SAS is designed for backward compatibility with 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA hard drives. The 12Gb/s SAS interface supports both 12Gb/s SAS disk drives for data-intensive applications and 6Gb/s SATA drives for low-cost bulk storage of reference data. The ARC-1216-4i RAID controllers only support directly attach to 4 SAS/SATA drives without supporting the expand function. The ARC-1216-4i default support 1GB on-board DDR3-1600 SDRAM memory.
Product Highlights
✵ Support up to 1GB DDR3-1600 cache
✵ SGPIO and Series Bus enclosure management
✵ Support read/write cache allocation by policy
✵ Redundant flash image for adapter availability
✵ Supports up to (8) 12Gb/s SAS,SATA or SSD drives
✵ Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10 (1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
✵ Support RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk
✵ RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, Single Disk or JBOD
✵ Controller level hardware encryption and self-encrypting drive management
✵ Support optional flash-based backup module (FBM) protection using SuperCap or battery
✵ Broad operating support including Windows, Linux (open source),FreeBSD (open source), Soaris (open source), Mac and VMware