Introduction – Areca 24/4 Internal/External Port Pcie 3.0 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA Raid Controller 2Gb Cache User Manual
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INTRODUCTION
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• Support flash-based or battery backup module (FBM/BBM) ready
(optional)
• RoHS compliant
RAID Features
• RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
• Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10(1E) support (RAID 00 and
RAID100)
• Multiple RAID selection
• Configurable stripe size up to 1024KB
• Support HDD firmware update
• Online array roaming
• Online RAID level/stripe size migration
• Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultane-
ously
• Online volume set growth
• 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
• Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
• SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support
• Controller level hardware encryption support
• Support intelligent power management to save energy and ex-
tend service life
Monitors/Notification
• System status indication through global HDD activity/fault con-
nector, individual activity/fault connector, LCD/I
2
C connector
and alarm buzzer
• SMTP support for email notification
•
SNMP support for remote manager
•
Enclosure management (SES-2, SMP and SGPIO) ready
RAID Management
• Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
In-Band Manager
• Hot key "boot-up" McBIOS RAID manager via M/B BIOS
• Web browser-based McRAID storage manager via ArcHTTP proxy
server for all operating systems
• Support Command Line Interface (CLI)