Areca ARC-1220ML 8-port External SATA II 3Gb/s RAID Controller Card
Areca ARC-1220ML 8-port External SATA II 3Gb/s RAID Controller, Low Profile, PCI-e, 256MB Cache
The ARC-1220ML Serial ATA ll RAID host adapter is a high-performance PCI-Express bus to SATA ll Disk Array host adapter. The controller can provide up to 4 and 8 SATA ll peripheral devices on a single host adapter. When properly configured, the SATA host adapter can provide non-stop service with a high degree of fault tolerance through the use of RAID technology and advanced array management features. Intel IOP332 and IOP 333 processor have integrated the RAID 6 engine inside. It offers Areca the advantage of reduced engineering and development costs, by having the New RAID6 function build-in and integrated part saves on component costs and internal PCI bandwidth.Intel emphasis on architectural commonality in IOPs allows Areca developers to capitalize on their existing code base. The 4/8 port Serial ATA RAID Host adapter is low-profile PCI cards-ideal for 1U or 2U rack-mount system. It is used the same RAID kernel of its field-proven external RAID controller
Adapter Architecture
ARC-1220ML uses IntelR IOP333 I/O processor
PCI-Express X8 bus
256MB on-board DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection
Write-through or write-back cache support
Support up to 4/8 SATA II drives
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 6 Engine to support extreme performance RAID 6
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