ARC12268X 8port external 12Gb SAS RAID card PCIe x8 2xSFF8644

ARC-1216-8x, the 12Gb/s SAS is designed for backward compatibility with 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA hard drives. The 12Gb/s SAS interface supports both 12Gb/s SAS disk drives for data-intensive applications and 6Gb/s SATA drives for low-cost bulk storage of reference data.

• Dual Core RAID-on-Chip (ROC) 1.2 GHz processor
• PCIe 3.0 x8 lane host interface
• 1GB on-board DDR3-1600 SDRAM with ECC
• Write-through or write-back cache support
• Support up to 8 external 12Gb/s SAS ports
• ARC-1226-8x supports up to 8 x 12Gb/s SAS/SATA HDDs
• BIOS boot array support for greater fault tolerance
• Boot support for the uEFI host BIOS
• NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
• Redundant flash image for controller availability
• Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
• Support flash-based or battery backup module (FBM/BBM) ready (optional)
• RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD
• Multiple RAID 0 and RAID 10(1E) support (RAID 00 and RAID100)
• Multiple RAID selection
• Support HDD firmware update
• Configurable stripe size up to 1024KB
• Online array roaming
• Online RAID level/stripe size migration
• Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
• Online volume set growth
• Instant availability and background initialization
• Support global and dedicated hot spare
• Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuilding
• Support intelligent power management to save energy and extend service life
• Support for native 4K and 512 byte sector SAS and SATA devices
• Multiple pairs SSD/HDD disk clone function
• SSD automatic monitor clone (AMC) support
• Controller level hardware encryption function support
• Windows 10/8/Server2012/7/2008/Vista/XP/2003, Linux, FreeBSD, VMware (only driver package available w/o management), Solaris 10/11 x86/x86_64, Mac OS X 10.4 or Higher