ARECA SAS ARC-1680D-IX-16

Adapter Architecture
• Intel Dual Core 800/1200 MHz IOP348 I/O processor for RAID core and SAS microcode
• PCIe x8 Link host interface
• 256MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC (ARC-1680LP/1680i/1680x) and 512MB for ARC-1680ix-8
• One 240-pin DDR2-533 DIMM socket with default 512MB of SDRAM with ECC protection, upgrade to 4GB (ARC-1680ix-
12/16/24)
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Support up to 4/8/12/16/24 internal and 4/8 external SAS ports
• 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 engine support extreme performance RAID 6 function
• NVRAM for RAID configuration & transaction log
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready (Option)
• RoHS Compliant

RAID Features
• RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
• Multiple RAID selection
• Online array roaming
• Online RAID level/stripe size migration
• Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
• Online volume set growth
• Instant availability and background initialization
• Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding
• Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
• Support spin down drives when not in use to extend service life (MAID)
• Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port Monitors/Notification
• System status indication through global HDD activity/fault connector, individual activity/fault connector, LCD/I2C connector and
alarm buzzer
• SMTP support for email notification
• SNMP support for remote manager
• Enclosure management (SES2, 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)
• API library for customer to write monitor utility
• Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
• Disk Stress Test (DST) utility for production Out-of-Band Manager
• Firmware-embedded web browser-based McRAID storage manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via
Ethernet port
• API library for customer to write monitor utility
• Support Push Button and LCD display panel (option)

Operating System (Same as Areca SATA ll RAID adapter fieldproven device drivers)
• Windows 2000/XP/server 2003/Vista
• Linux
• FreeBSD
• Novell Netware 6.5
• Solaris 10 x86/x86_64
• SCO UnixWare 7.1.4
• Mac OS 10.x (EFI BIOS support)

ARC-1680_Series_Manual.pdf