Adapters


M.2 Cached NVMe RAID Adapter

ARC-1203-NOD image

ARC-1203-2N

(PCIe 2.0 X4 to M.2 Cached NVMe Hardware RAID Adapter)

Highlights


✵ Supports up to 2 x M.2 drives

✵ Support up to 512B DDR3-1066 cache

✵ Support on-board supercapacitor

✵ Self-encrypting drive management

✵ Support read/write cache allocation by policy

✵ Redundant flash image for adapter availability

✵ Support RAID level 0, 1 and Single Disk(Single/Dual)

✵ Native OS NVMe host drivers

✵ Broad operating support including Native OS NVMe host drivers, Windows, Linux (open source),FreeBSD (open source), Soaris (open source), Mac and VMware


PCIe 2.0 X4 to M.2 Cached NVMe RAID Adapter


The Areca ARC-1203-2N NVMe Native RAID host adapter is a PCIe 2.0 x4 bus to 2 ports PCIe 2.0 X1 M.2 disk array host adapter. When properly configured, the M.2 RAID adapter can provide a high degree of performance and fault tolerance with data mirroring for maximum protection. The ARC-1203-2N NVMe RAID adapter is ideal for NVMe boot applications as it naturally provides operating system and recovery data protection that is physically isolated in the system from volume user data. This isolation is critical for applications that require reliable access to the logs and OS boot programs without any chance of being corrupted by user data.

  ARC-1203-2N M.2 Cached RAID Adapters
RAID-on-Chip Controller ARM_based storage I/O processor@ 1.066 GHz
Cache Memory 512 MB on-board DDR3-1066 SDRAM with ECC protection
Host Bus Interface 4-Lane PCI Express® 2.0
Drive Connectors 2 x M.2 Connectors
Drive Interface Gen 2.0 X1 PCIe (NVMe)
Physical Dimensions Low Profile: 168(L) x 64.4(H) mm
Power Dissipation Typical: 8W
Operating Temperature 0°C to 60°C with 200 LFM airflow
Operating Humidity 10% to 85%, non-condensing
On-board Supercapacitor Yes
RAID Features * RAID level 0, 1 and Single Disk(Single/Dual)
* Multiple RAID selection
* Configurable stripe size up to 1MB
* Array roaming
* RAID level/stripe size migration
* Capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
* SED (self-encrypting drives) function support
* On-board supercapacitor for Non-PLP NVMe drive and LED indicator ready
* Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID controller clock over the on board Ethernet port

Operating Systems


  • Native OS NVMe host drivers
  • Windows
  • Red Hat Linux
  • SUSE Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • macOS
  • 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
  • Firmware built-in EFI Shell to launch configuration utility

  • Monitors/Notification

  • System status indication through M.2 fault LED and alarm buzzer
  • SNMP support for remote manager
  • SMTP support for email notification
  • On-board supercapacitor to keep on M.2 fault LED status for troubleshooting
  • Downloads


    File Version Date
    ARC-1203-2N Specification 1.0 2024/05/19
    ARC-1203-2N Quick Installation Guide 1.0 2024/09/15
    ARC-1203-2N User Manual 1.0 download icon 2024/09/27
    CLI Utility User Manual 5.2 download icon 2022/01/04
    ArcSAP User Manual 4.2 2020/11/03
    SNMP User Manual 1.0 2011/06/20
    File Version Date
    ARC-1203 series firmware 1.70 download icon 2024/09/23