ARC-1210ML/1220ML/1211x/1221x (4/8-port PCIe to SATA ll RAID Adapters) The ARC-12XXML/12x1x Serial ATA ll RAID host adapters are high-performance PCI-Express bus to SATA ll Disk Array host adapter. The controller can provide up to 4 and 8 SATA ll peripheral devices on a single host adapter. When properly configured, the SATA host adapter can provide non-stop service with a high degree of fault tolerance through the use of RAID technology and advanced array management features. Intel IOP332 and IOP 333 processor have integrated the RAID 6 engine inside. It offers Areca the advantage of reduced engineering and development costs, by having the New RAID6 function build-in and integrated part saves on component costs and internal PCI bandwidth.Intel emphasis on architectural commonality in IOPs allows Areca developers to capitalize on their existing code base. The 4/8 port Serial ATA RAID Host adapter is low-profile PCI cards-ideal for 1U or 2U rack-mount system. It is used the same RAID kernel of its field-proven external RAID controller.

Adapter Architecture

Intel 800MHz IOP341 I/O processor

PCI-Express X8 bus

One DIMM socket with default 512MB of DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection, Upgrade to 4GB from PCB 2.0. An ECC or non-ECC SDRAM module using X8 or X16 chip organization

Write-through or write-back cache support

Support up to 12/16/24 SATA II drives

Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements

BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance

BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support

Intel RAID 6 Engine to support extreme performance RAID 6

NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log

Redundant flash image for adapter availability

Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready

ARC-6120BAT-T1xx, xx means version no.

RoHS Compliant