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ARC-6063 (4/8-port Fibre-to-SAS Controller)

The ARC-6063 external RAID controller features a two 4Gb Fibre host channel and SAS device attachment. The controller has a base module with 8 SAS channels for disk drives. Installing a two 4Gb Fibre host daughter board onto the base module allow you to support 8 channels SAS function.
The Array controller provides reliable data protection for servers and offers a new level polynomial technology to implement the high speed RAID 6 function. Its performance is very similar to RAID 5. The controller raises the standard to high performance levels with several enhancements including Intel IOP348, a new memory architecture (DDR2-533) and new RAID 6 engine.

System Architecture

Intel Dual Core 1200 MHz IOP348 I/O processor for RAID core and SAS microcode

256MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection

Support write-through or write-back cache

Support 4/8 internal SAS ports

Support extreme performance RAID 6 function

NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log

Redundant flash image for adapter availability

Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready (optional)
ARC-6120BA-T112

RoHS Compliant

RAID Features

RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 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

Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuilding

Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)

Disk scrubbing/array verify scheduling for automatic repair of all configured RAID sets

Support spin down drives when not in use (MAID)

Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port

Disk Bus Interface

4/8 internal Fibre ports

Up to 3Gb/s per port