Areca ARC-1689-32I PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 NVMe Hardware RAID Adapter

ARC-1689-32I presents the advanced hardware RAID technology in enhanced performance of using 4x MCIO ports (dedicated PCIe Gen5 x8 per MCIO) device interface. The hardware RAID adapter is designed in PCIe 5.0 switch, high-performance hardware RAID engine, PCIe Gen 5.0 host/device interface and supports AIC mode or hardware RAID levels 0, 1 (Simple/Multi-Mirroring), 10, Single Disk (Single/Dual/Triple) or JBOD, allowing customers to build the high bandwidth, low-latency, scalable, cost-effective, and robust performance storage for ML/AI and HPC applications. The RAID adapter does not require a driver for operation or communication to attached NVMe drives. The RAID volumes are presented natively to the host and use the OS native NVMe drivers.

ARC-1689 PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 NVMe Hardware RAID adapter is built to deliver the unparalleled speed and data redundancy for your demanding workloads. The RAID adapter uses the PEX89048 PCIe 5.0 switch that provides a x16 PCIe 5.0, 32 GT/s interface to a host system with up to 32 PCIe 5.0 32 GT/s ports for NVMe device connection.

At the heart of ARC-1689-32I is the incredibly powerful Broadcom PEX89048 PCIe switch chip and high-performance hardware engine, giving effortless performance as desirable. It delivers storage interface PCIe Gen 5 x4 NVMe, and the security of data protection. Damage in a software RAID is considered as the consumption of massive computation and memory bandwidth on the host. The ARC-1689 hardware RAID relieves the parity generation burden from the host and maximizes application processing performance.

• Supports up to 4x MCIO ports (dedicated PCIe Gen5 x8 per MCIO)
• Connection for up to 8x4, 16x2 and 32x1 NVMe SSD connect via direct cable or back/mid-plane
• PCIe 5.0 host interface, PCIe Gen5 x16 lanes at maximum transfer rate up to 512Gb/s
• Delivers high-speed performance with speeds of 60GB/s
• True hardware RAID protection for all valueable data
• Hardware-based RAID solution that supports RAID levels RAID levels 0, 1 (Simple/Multi Mirroring), 10, Single Disk(Single/Dual/Triple) or JBOF/AIC Mode
• SED support for hardware NVMe encryption capable drives
• Support for UEFI secure boot
• Hardware secure boot ready
• In-box NVMe driver support for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and VMware
• Support slot link control capabilities, link status and error count monitoring
• Flexible reconfiguration downstream station port widths:x1,x2,x4,x8 and x16 via GUI(update to ARC-1289-32I firmware)