Areca ARC-1330-8x (PCIe 3.0 12Gb/s SAS Host Adapters)

Areca ARC-1330-8x (PCIe 3.0 12Gb/s SAS Host Adapter)

• x8 lane PCI Express® 3.0
• 8 x external with 2 x SFF-8644
• 128 X 3Gb/s, 6Gb/s and 12Gb/s SAS/SATA
• Connects to SAS/SATA HDDs, solid state driver (SSDs) and removable media (DAS/JBOD)
• Support a maximum 128 SAS/SATA devices using SAS expander
• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS-3.0) compliant
• Hot-plug capability
• Support staggered spin-up, hot-plug and Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
• Support port multiplier
• Support ATA-8 microcode download for upgrading SATA disk drive firmware
• Support SES microcode download for upgrading enclosure expander firmware

The ARC-1330 series is a low profile host adapter. It brings the fastest available connections to SAS data transfer rates of 12, 6, and 3 Gb/s per lane and SATA data transfer rates of 6 and 3Gb/s per lane interface storage on any computer, workstation and server with PCI Express 3.0 interface.

The adapters are backwards compatible with existing and future RAID, and expander solutions. It provides maximum bandwidth and I/O connectivity for high-end server-based storage systems with internal storage or when connecting to large-scale storage enclosures.

Product Line Feature:

• PCIe 3.0 x8 lanes ( x8, x4, and x1 lane widths)
• Up to 12Gb/s transfer rates per SAS port
• Support 3.0, 6.0 and 12 Gb/s SAS and SATA link rates
• Connects to SAS and SATA HDDs, tape drives, SSDs
• Supports SSP, SMP, STP and SATA protocols
• Supports the SATA Protocol defined in the serial ATA, Revision 2.6 specification
• Address up to 128 total end-point devices via SAS expanders
• API library for customer to write monitor utility
• System status indicates through global HDD activity/fault header