ARC-1886-16i
16-Port Internal PCIe Gen 4.0 Tri-Mode Hardware RAID Controller
2x Internal SlimSAS (SFF-8654 8i) Ports
The new fourth generation ARC-1886 family offers advanced technology for increased performance and improved enterprise data protection. They were designed with 1.6 GHz dual core ROC processor, DDR4-2666 memory and PCIe 4.0 interface for the most performance-hungry database and IT applications. Based on the ARM A15 PCIe 4.0 x8 to SAS/SATA/PCIe RAID on Chip (ROC) controller, the ARC-1886 series RAID adapters can offer both PCIe Gen 4.0 host and 12Gb/s SAS/SATA/PCIe (NVMe) tri-mode storage interfaces.
Product Highlights
✵ Support up to 8GB DDR4-2666 cache
✵ SFF-9402 compliant connector pin-out
✵ Support read/write cache allocation by policy
✵ Support up to 32 NVMe drives using PCIe switch
✵ Redundant flash image for adapter availability
✵ UBM, SES2, SMP and SGPIO enclosure management
✵ Support up to (512) 12Gb/s SAS, SATA or SSD drives using SAS expanders
✵ Support optional cache backup module (CBM) protection using SuperCap
✵ Tri-mode interface at each drive ports-12Gb/s SAS/SATA/ Gen 4.0 PCIe (NVMe)
✵ Support RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk
✵ Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10 (1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
✵ Controller level hardware encryption and self-encryption drive management
✵ Broad operating support including Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and VMware
✵ Support for SAS tape devices and transport layer retries (TLR) for error handling
RAID Features
RAID Levels - 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
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
Write-through or write-back cache support
Support read/write cache allocation by policy
Support HDD firmware update
Online array roaming
Online RAID level/stripe size migration
Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
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 UNMAP command
S.M.A.R.T. support
Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC)
Controller based hardware encryption function
SED (self-encryption drives) function support
Support backplanes based on the SFF-TA-1005 specification (UBM)
Redundant flash image for adapter availability
Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID adapter clock over the onboard Ethernet port
Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows
Red Hat Linux, Centos Linux, SUSE Linux, Fedora, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux
FreeBSD
XenServer
unRAID
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
API code support
CIM provider for VMware
McBIOS Configuration Utility
Legacy configuration utility
Flashable BIOS support
Monitors/Notification
Global HDD activity/fault connector, individual fault connector
LCD/I²C connector and alarm buzzer
SNMP
SMTP
enclosure management (UBM, SES-2 and SGPIO) ready
