ARC-1886-8i 8 Port Internal PCIe 4.0 Tri-Mode Hardware RAID Controller

Product Highlights

‚úµ Support up to 8GB DDR4-2666 cache

‚úµ SFF-9402 compliant connector pin-out

‚úµ Support read/write cache allocation by policy

‚úµ Support up to 32 NVMe drives using PCIe switch

‚úµ Redundant flash image for adapter availability

‚úµ UBM, SES2, SMP and SGPIO enclosure management

‚úµ Support up to (512) 12Gb/s SAS, SATA or SSD drives using SAS expanders

‚úµ Support optional cache backup module (CBM) protection using SuperCap

‚úµ Tri-mode interface at each drive ports-12Gb/s SAS/SATA/ Gen 4.0 PCIe (NVMe)

‚úµ Controller level hardware encryption and self-encryption drive management

‚úµ Support RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk

‚úµ Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10 (1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)

‚úµ Broad operating support including Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and VMware

8/16 Ports PCIe Gen 4.0 Tri-Mode RAID Adapters

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.

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

CIM provider for VMware

API code support

 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