
Areca ARC-1680LP PCI-Express X8 SAS Controller Card
Areca high-performance ARC-1680 series PCIe to SAS RAID host controller can provide up to (128) SAS/SATA ll peripheral devices using SAS expanders. The controllers are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven external RAID adapter and same device drivers with widely used SATA RAID controller. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS. server RAID solutions. web servers. supercomputing. near-line backup. security systems and streaming applications. Specifications Type SAS External Connectors 1 x SFF-8088 Internal Connectors 1 x SFF-8087 Interface PCI-E x8 Transfer Rate Up to 3Gb/s Cache Memory 256MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection for low profile board RAID 0. 1. 10. 3. 5. 6. 30. 50. 60. Single Disk or JBOD Operating Systems Supported Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 Linux FreeBSD Novell Netware 6.5 Solaris 10X86/X86_64 SCO Unixware 7.X.X Mac OS 10.X Features Features Intel 667 MHz IOP348 I/O processor with SAS controller PCIe x8 Li