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ARC-1686-NOD Series

Entry Level M.2 NVMe Hardware RAID Adapters

The Areca ARC-1686 series presents the advanced hardware RAID technology in enhanced performance of using 2/4/6 Bays M.2 NVMe. The hardware RAID adapter support off module power loss protection (PLP), on-board hold up supercapacitor, and M.2 slot Power Disable feature for guaranteed data protection. This is designed in a 1.6 GHz dual-core ROC processor and PCIe Gen 4.0 host/device interface and supports RAID levels 0, 1 (Simple/Multi Mirroring), 10, Single Disk (Single/Dual/Triple) or JBOD.

Areca Technology

ARC-1686-2NOD	ARC-1686-4NOD	ARC-1686-6NOD
2x M.2 Slots	4x M.2 Slots	6x M.2 Slots

$699

$799

$999

HIGHLIGHTS


	Supports 2/4/6 Bays M.2
	Hardware Secure Boot Ready
	x8 PCIe Gen 4.0 Host Interface
	Support Individual NVMe Power Disable Feature
	RAID Levels 0, 1 (Simple/Multi Mirroring), 10, Single Disk (Single/Dual/Triple) or JBOD
	Device Interface PCIe Gen4 NVMe / 6Gbps SATA per M.2 Slot
	Support Off Module Power Loss Protection for Non PLP NVMe drive using on-board supercapacitor
	Broad Operating Support including Windows, Linux (Open Source), FreeBSD (Open Source), Mac and VMware
	Redundant Flash Image for Adapter Availability
	Capacity Expansion, RAID Level/Stripe Size Migration
	SED Support for Hardware NVMe Encryption Capacle Drives
	Tri-Mode Interface at each M.2 bays - 12Gb/s SAS/SATA/Gen 4.0 PCIe (NVMe)

ULTRAFAST TRANSFER SPEED

Unprecedented Performance
	Based on the Broadcom SAS3908/SAS3916 x8 PCIe Gen 4.0 to SAS/SATA/PCIe RAID on Chip (ROC) controller, the ARC-1686 entry-level RAID adapter raises the standard to higher performance levels with several enhancements including a new high performance 1.6 GHz dual core ROC processor, outstanding performance PCIe Gen 4.0 host and 12Gb/s SAS/SATA/PCIe (NVMe) interface bus interconnection.

Powerful Broadcom Tri-Mode ROC Engine
	At the heart of ARC-1686-xNOD is the incredibly powerful Broadcom SAS3908/SAS3916 dual-core ARM A15 tri-mode ROC, giving effortless performance as desirable. It delivers storage interface PCIe Gen 4 NVMe, 12Gb/s SAS, 6Gb/s SATA, 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-1686-xNOD hardware RAID relieves the parity generation burden from the host and maximizes application processing performance.

Off Module Power (OMP) Loss Protection

	Enterprise storages need to ensure data integrity in the event of power losses and system crashes. The Power Loss Protection (PLP) is a hardware and firmware solution on the ARC-1686-xNOD RAID adapter to ensure that the NVMe SSDs inegrity is maintained should a power loss event occur.

Fault LED Stay on for Troubleshooting

	On-Board Supercapacitor keeps M.2 Fault LED Status for easy identification of failed drive when the ARC-1686 RAID adapter is removed from the system PCIe slot.

Power Disable Feature (PWRDIS)

	The ARC-1686 Power Disable feature provides a M.2 management capability to electrically power cycle a physical NVMe drive in order to perform a power on reset. This can be useful if a NVMe drive locks up for some reason, and you don’t want to send a technician to the physical RAID storage and manually "power down" and "power on" your system in order to power cycle the NVMe drive. Now, ARC-1686 can do this function automatically to check the drive is indeed failed or can be re-used. ARC-1686 Power Disable feature is similar as Power Disable Feature (PD) - disk cold boot management feature introduced with SATA 3.3 - February 2, 2016.

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ARC-1686-NOD Series

Entry Level M.2 NVMe Hardware RAID Adapters

Unprecedented Performance

Powerful Broadcom Tri-Mode ROC Engine

Off Module Power (OMP) Loss Protection

Fault LED Stay on for Troubleshooting

Power Disable Feature (PWRDIS)