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INTRODUCTION
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1. Introduction
This section briefly describes general overview of SATA RAID Series
controller card, ARC-1110/1120/1130/1160/1170 (4/8/12/16/24-port
PCI-X SATA RAID Controller) and ARC-1210/1220/1230/1260/1270
(4/8/12/16/24-port PCI-Express SATA RAID Controller).
1.1 Overview
ARC-11xx/12xx Series high-performance PCI bus Card Serial ATA
RAID controller supported 4, 8, 12, 16, 24 SATA-II peripheral de-
vice on a single controller. With properly configured, SATA controller
can provided non-stop services with a high degree of fault tolerance
through the use of RAID technology and advanced array manage-
ment features. The 4/8 port SATA RAID controller is a low-profile
PCI cards-Ideal for 1U or 2U rack-mount system. It has the same
RAID kernel of its field-proven external RAID controller. Lets bring
quickly to stable and reliable RAID controller to the market.
Unparalleled Performance
The array controllers provide reliable data protection for desktops,
workstations and servers. They raise the standard higher perfor-
mance levels with several enhancements including Intel high-perfor-
mance I/O Processor, a new DDR memory architecture (DDR333) and
high performance PCI bus interconnection. SATA RAID 8/12/16/24-
port controller with Areca RAID 6 engine buid-in can offer extreme
performance RAID 6 function. It can concurrently compute two par-
ity blocks and performance very similar to RAID 5. The controllers
default support 128MB ECC DDR333 SDRAM memory. The 12/16/24
ports controllers support one SODIMM socket for upgrading up to
1GB. The controllers use the Marvell 4/8 channels SATA PCI-X con-
troller chip, which can simultaneously communicate with the host
system, and read or write data on several drives.
Unsurpassed Data Availability
As storage capacities continue to rapidly increase, user needs greater
level of disk drive fault tolerance, which can be implemented without