ARC-1883X

8-Port External PCIe 3.0 12Gb/s SAS/SATA Hardware RAID Adapter

2x External MiniSAS HD (SFF-8644) Ports

The latest generation ARC-1883 family offers advanced technology for increased performance and improved enterprise data protection. They were designed with 1.2 GHz dual core ROC processor, DDR3-1866 memory architecture and PCIe 3.0 connectivity for the most performance-hungry data center and IT applications. The ARC-1883x includes 8 ports external (2x SFF-8644) mini SAS HD connectors for 12Gb/s throughput on each port.

• Supports up to (512) 12Gb/s SAS,SATA or SSD drives using SAS expanders
• Support read/write cache allocation by policy
• Support optional flash-based backup module (FBM) protection using SuperCap or battery SES2, SMP and SGPIO enclosure management
• Controller level hardware encryption and self-encrypting drive management
• Redundant flash image for adapter availability
• RAID 0,1,3,5,6,10,30,50,60, Single Disk and JBOD
• Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10 (1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
• Support RAID 1 - Multi Mirroring and Mirrored Pass-Through Disk 
• Broad operating support including Windows, Linux (open source),FreeBSD (open source), Solaris (open source), Mac and VMware