Overview
Areca high-performance PCIe to SAS RAID host adapter can provide up to 4 SAS/SATA II peripheral devices. The adapters are based on the same RAID kernel of field-proven external RAID adapter. Applications that benefit most features from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming.
Key Features
- Intel 800MHz IOP348 I/O processor with SAS controller
- PCIe x8 link host interface
- 256MB on-board DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection
- Support write-through or write-back cache
- Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
- BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance