ARC-1203-8I
8 Port PCIe 2.0 to SATA RAID Adapter
2x SFF-8643 Ports
Areca ARC-1203-8i is a PCIe 2.0 RAID controller for cost-effective solutions connecting up to 8x 6Gb/s SATA drives. Areca’s ARC-1203-8i entry-level RAID controllers cover the spectrum of wild range storage requirements for cost-sensitive applications that require robust data protection. The 8 port configurations are aimed at high-availability and capacity oriented applications, such as security systems, surveillance, multimedia content generation, large-volume data capturing, mail servers and entry-level database systems.
Product Highlights
✵ Supports up to (8) 6Gb/s SATA or SSD drives
✵ 512MB DDR3-1066 cache
✵ Support read/write cache allocation by policy
✵ Support optional battery backup module (BBM)
✵ Self-encrypting drive management
✵ SGPIO enclosure management for ARC-1203-4i/8i
✵ Redundant flash image for adapter availability
✵ Support RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk
✵ RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60 and Single Disk
✵ Broad operating support including Windows, Linux (open source),FreeBSD (open source), Solaris (open source), Mac and VMware