Areca ARC-1886-4X12I 16-Ports PCIe Gen 4.0 Tri-Mode RAID Adapter With 2x SFF-8654[x8] & 1xSFF-8644[4]

The new fourth generation ARC-1886 family offers advanced technology for increased performance and improved enterprise data protection. They were designed with 1.6 GHz dual core ROC processor, DDR4-2666 memory and PCIe 4.0 interface for the most performance-hungry database and IT applications. Based on the ARM A15 PCIe 4.0 x8 to SAS/SATA/PCIe RAID on Chip (ROC) controller, the ARC-1886 series RAID adapters can offer both PCIe Gen 4.0 host and 12Gb/s SAS/SATA/PCIe (NVMe) tri-mode storage interfaces.

RAID Features
RAID Levels - 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10 (1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
Support RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk
Multiple RAID selection
Configurable stripe size up to 1MB
Write-through or write-back cache support
Support read/write cache allocation by policy
Support HDD firmware update
Online array roaming
Online RAID level/stripe size migration
Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
Instant availability and background initialization
Support global and dedicated hot spare
Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding
Support for native 4K and 512 byte sector SAS and SATA devices
Support UNMAP command
S. M. A. R. T. support
Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC)
Controller based hardware encryption function
SED (self-encryption drives) function support
Support backplanes based on the SFF-TA-1005 specification (UBM)
Redundant flash image for adapter availability
Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
Support NTP protocol synchronize RAID adapter clock over the onboard Ethernet port

Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows
Red Hat Linux, Centos Linux, SUSE Linux, Fedora, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux
FreeBSD
XenServer
unRAID
macOS
VMware ESXi