Areca ARC-1320IX-16 6G HBA with 16 x Internal and 8 x External Ports

ARC-1320 series host adapters provide ablazing-fast storage connectivity solution with enhanced reliability and performance and a wide variety of internal and external connector configurations to support any application and tiered storage solution. The SAS host adapters enable large-scale direct attach storage (DAS) arrays through external 6Gb/s ports, driving up to 128 end-point devices for SFF-8088 connector. With connectivity options including 8-internal ports, 4-internal/4-external ports, 8-external ports, and 16-internal/8-external ports, ARC-1320 series 6Gb/s host adapters are ideal for large capacity external server storage RAID and no-RAID enclosure.

Features:

• 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-2.0) 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