Areca 1886-4X8I 16-Ports PCIe Gen 4.0 Tri-Mode RAID Adapter

Areca, 1886-4X8I, 16-Ports PCIe Gen 4.0 Tri-Mode RAID Adapter w/o Cable

Features:

• 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
• Support RAID Levels - 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
• 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

The 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.

RAID Features

• 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

• Native OS NVMe Host Drivers (Host Interface=NVMe Mode)
• 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
  • Firmware built-in EFI Shell to launch the configuration utility
• 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