Adapters


SATA RAID Adapters

ARC-11X0 Series

(PCI-X to SATA ll RAID Adapters)

Product Highlights


✵ Supports up to 4, or 8 SATA II drives on a single host adapter

✵ STAT-II 300MB/s speed at EACH SATA II drive ports

✵ Support RAID level 0, 1, (0+1), 3, 5, 5 (RAID 6 engine installed) and JBOD

✵ Areca ASIC to support highest speed RAID 6

✵ Redundant flash image for adapter availability

✵ Online Capacity expansion, RAID level/stripe size migration

✵ Hot-swap and Hot-spare function for data availability

✵ Support Greater than 2TB Volume set and battery backup

✵ Web browser-based RAID manager via HTTP PROXY SERVER for Windows, Linux & FreeBSD system


PCI-X to SATA ll RAID Adapters


The ARC-11X0 Serial ATA ll RAID host adapter is a high-performance PCI-X bus to SATA ll Disk Array host adapter. The controller can provide up to 4 or 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 IOP331 processor has 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 and 8 port SATA RAID controllers are low-profile PCI cards, ideal for 1U and 2U rack-mount systems. These controllers utilize the same RAID kernel that has been field-proven in Areca existing external RAID controllers, allowing Areca to quickly bring stable and reliable RAID controllers to the market.

  ARC-11x0 Series 3Gb/s SATA RAID Adapters
ARC-1110 ARC-1120
RAID-on-Chip Controller Intel IOP331 333MHz
Cache Memory 256MB on-board DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection
Host Bus Interface PCI-X 64bit/133MHz
Ports 4 x internal 8 x internal
Drive Connectors 2 x Dual-Layer SATA 4 x Dual-Layer SATA
Data Transfer Rate Up to 3Gb/s per port
Drive Support Up to 4 x SATA HDDs/SSD Up to 8 x SATA HDDs/SSD
Physical Dimensions Low Profile: 168(L) x 64(H) mm
Power Dissipation Typical: 10.97W
Operating Temperature 0 °C to 50 °C with 200 LFM airflow
Operating Humidity 10% to 85%, non-condensing
BBM Support ARC-6120BA-T113
RAID Levels RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, Single Disk or JBOD
RAID Features
  • Multiple RAID selection
  • Configurable stripe size up to 256KB
  • Greater than 2TB per volume set
  • 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
  • Support global and dedicated hot spare
  • Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding
  • Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
  • Support S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin-up capable drives

Operating Systems


  • Microsoft Windows
  • Red Hat Linux, Centos Linux, SUSE Linux, Fedora, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux
  • OpenBSD
  • XenServer
  • unRAID
  • Solaris
  • FreeBSD
  • macOS
  • VMware ESXi
  • Management Monitor


    McRAID Storage Manager

  • Web-based GUI management utility
  • Remote configuration, monitoring, and notification
  • Graphical-based management utility

  • McRAID Utility

  • Command-line interface
  • CIM provider for VMware
  • API code support
  • McBIOS Configuration Utility

  • Legacy configuration utility
  • Flashable BIOS support

  • Monitors/Notification

  • global HDD activity/fault connector, individual activity/fault connector
  • LCD/I²C connector and alarm buzzer
  • SNMP
  • SMTP
  • Downloads


    File Version Date
    ARC-1110/1120 Specification 1.0 2007/03/15
    ARC-1110/1120 User Manual 4.1 2015/06/15
    CLI Utility User Manual 5.1 2020/04/20
    ArcSAP User Manual 4.2 2020/11/03
    SNMP User Manual 1.0 2011/06/20
    File Version Date
    ARC-1110 firmware 1.49 2010/12/02
    ARC-1120 firmware 1.49 2010/12/02