
Areca 8-Port internal PCIe 3.0 12Gbps SAS Hardware RAID Controller, 1GB Cache, SFF-8643 to SFF-8643 cables
SKU ARC-1226-8I
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Areca ARC-1226-8i 8 Port Internal 12 Gb/s SAS RAID Adapters
ARC-12x6 internal PCIe 3.0 host RAID controllers are a cost-effective solutions for connecting up to 4/8 12Gb/s SAS peripheral devices. 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. The ARC-1216-4i/4x and ARC-1226-8i/8x RAID controllers only support directly attach to 4/8 SAS/SATA drives without supporting the expand function. The ARC-12x6 series default support 1GB on-board DDR3-1600 SDRAM memory. Features:
- Supports up to (8) 12Gb/s SAS,SATA or SSD drives
- 8 internal Ports
- Support up to 1GB DDR3-1600 cache
- Support read/write cache allocation by policy
- Support optional flash-based backup module (FBM) protection using SuperCap or battery
- Controller level hardware encryption and self-encrypting drive management
- SGPIO and Series Bus enclosure management
- 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), Soaris (open source), Mac and VMware
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