Areca ARC1231ML Multilane PCI-Express to Sata 2 Raid 6 controller 12 ports with mini-sas
Areca ARC-1231ML 12-port SATA 2 RAID Controller,
PCI-e, 256MB Cache, Intel IOP34 high-performance PCI-Express bus to SATA RAID host adapters support 12 SATA ll peripheral devices on a single host adapter. SATA RAID controller has the same RAID kernel of its field-proven external RAID controllers. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers including NAS, server RAID solutions, web server, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming and streaming applications server.
The ML Multi-Lane version comes with Min SAS 4i internal connector. This Min SAS 4i (SFF-8087) connector has eight signal pins to support four SATA drives and six pins for the SGPIO (Serial General Purpose Input/Output) side-band signals. The SGPIO bus is for efficient LED management and for sensing drive locate status, without any discrete fault & activity cable needed.
Adapter Architecture:
Intel 800MHz 81341 I/O processor
PCI-Express X8 bus
One DIMM socket with default 256MB of DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection, Upgrade to 2GB. An ECC or non-ECC SDRAM module using X8 or X16 devices