Acer ARC-1203 PCIe 2.0 are cost-effective RAID controllers supporting SATA 6 Gb/s drives. Areca's ARC-1203 series entry-level RAID controllers cover the entire spectrum of entry-level storage requirements for cost-effective configurations that require reliable data protection. 2/4/8 port configurations are designed for high availability and capacity oriented applications such as security systems, surveillance, multimedia content generation, large data capture, mail servers and basic database systems.
The controllers are 100% compatible with the Thunderbolt standard and work with external PCIe enclosures and with macOS and Windows.
Areca ARC-1203-8i 8x SATA RAID
Key features of the ARC-1203-8i card
✵ Support for up to 8 SATA HDDs or SSDs up to 6 Gb/s
✵ 2x internal SFF-8087 port – 8 SATA ports
✵ 4 line PCIe 2.0 bus
✵ Transfer speed up to 6Gb/s per port
✵ Supports 512 MB DDR3-1066 cache
✵ Support for read/write cache allocation by policy
✵ Support for optional Battery Backup Module (BBM)
✵ Manage self-encrypting drives
✵ SGPIO Chassis Management for ARC-1203-4i/8i
✵ Redundant flash image for adapter availability
✵ Supports RAID 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk - multiple mirrors and mirrored pass-through
✵ Extensive operational support including macOS, Windows, Linux (open source), FreeBSD (open source), Soaris (open source) and VMware
