SATA 3.0Gbps Controller - 4x SFF-8087 Mini-SAS Internal Ports - PCI-Express 1.0 X8 Slot - RAID 0/1/3/5/6/10/JBOD Supported - Intel IOP341 Controller - 512MB DDR2 Cache - Retail Box - Windows / OS X / Linux / FreeBSD / Netware / Solaris Compatible - 3 Year Depot Carry-In Mfg. Warranty
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Areca high-performance PCI-Express bus to SATA RAID host adapters support 12, 16 and 24 SATA ll peripheral devices on a single host adapter. SATA RAID controller has the same RAID kernel of its field-proven external RAID controllers. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers including NAS, server RAID solutions, web server, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming and streaming applications server.
The ML version comes with Min SAS 4i internal connector. This Min SAS 4i (SFF-8087) connector has eight signal pins to support four SATA drives and six pins for the SGPIO (Serial General Purpose Input/Output) side-band signals. The SGPIO bus is for efficient LED management and for sensing drive locate status, without any discrete fault & activity cable needed.