ARC-1686-8I
8 Port PCIe Gen 4.0 Cost-Effective RAID Adapter
1x Internal SlimSAS (SFF-8654 8i)
ARC-1686-8I/8X PCIe Gen 4.0 Cost-Effective RAID Adapters is built to deliver unprecedented performance, using only carefully, best-in-class components. These include the dual core Broadcom SAS3908, PCIe Gen 4.0 and tri-mode ROC.
At the heart of ARC-1686-8I/8X is the incredibly powerful Broadcom SAS3908 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-1686-8I/8X hardware RAID relieves the parity generation burden from the host and maximizes application processing performance.
Product Highlights
✵ Tri-mode interface at each drive ports-12Gb/s SAS/SATA/ Gen 4.0 PCIe (NVMe)
✵ x8 PCIe Gen 4.0 host interface
✵ Hardware secure boot ready
✵ Universal Bay Management (UBM) management
✵ SFF-9402 compliant connector pin-out
✵ SED support for hardware encryption capable drives
✵ Redundant flash image for adapter availability
✵ Support for SAS tape devices and transport layer retries (TLR) for error handling
✵ RAID levels 0, 1 (Simple/Multi Mirroring), 10, Single Disk (Single/Dual/Triple) or JBOD
✵ Broad operating support including Windows, Linux (open source), FreeBSD (open source), Mac and VMware