ARC-1216-4i, the 12Gb/s SAS is designed for backwardcompatibility with 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA hard drives. The 12Gb/sSAS interface supports both 12Gb/s SAS disk drives fordata-intensive applications and 6Gb/s SATA drives for low-cost bulkstorage of reference data.
Features:
Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 1.2 GHz processorPCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface1GB on-board DDR3-1600 SDRAM with ECCWrite-through or write-back cache supportSupport up to 4 internal 12Gb/s SAS portsARC-1216-4i supports up to 4 x 12Gb/s SAS/SATA HDDsBIOS boot array support for greater fault toleranceBoot support for the uEFI host BIOSSupport flash-based or battery backup module (FBM/BBM) ready(optional)RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk orJBODMultiple RAID 0 and RAID 10(1E) support (RAID 00 andRAID100)Multiple RAID selectionSupport HDD firmware updateConfigurable stripe size up to 1024KBOnline array roamingOnline RAID level/stripe size migrationOnline capacity expansion and RAID level migrationsimultaneouslyOnline volume set growthInstant availability and background initializationSupport global and dedicated hot spareAutomatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuildingSupport intelligent power management to save energy and extendservice lifeSupport for native 4K and 512 byte sector SAS and SATAdevicesMultiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone functionSSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) supportController level hardware encryption function supportWindows 10/8/Server2012/7/2008/Vista/XP/2003, Linux, FreeBSD,VMware (only driver package available w/o management), Solaris10/11 x86/x86_64, Mac OS X 10.4 or Higher
