Areca ARC-1883X, 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Controllers, No Cable

Supports up to (512) 12Gb/s SAS, SATA or SSD drives using SAS expanders Support up to 8GB DDR3-1866 cache (ARC-1883ix-12/16/24) Support read/write cache allocation by policy Data Boltâ„¢ Bandwidth Optimizer for balance faster hosts and slower SAS or SATA devices. (For ARC-1883ix) Support optional flash-based backup module (FBM) protection using Super Cap or battery SES2, SMP and SGPIO enclosure management Controller level hardware encryption and self-encrypting drive management Redundant flash image for adapter availability 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), Free BSD (open source), Soaris (open source), Mac and VMware