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 adapters and same device drivers with widely used SATA RAID controllers. Applications that benefit most from these controllers include NAS, server RAID solutions, web servers, supercomputing, near-line backup, security systems and streaming applications.
- Serial Attached SCSI PortsWith one external mini-SAS port and six internal mini-SAS ports, the Areca ARC-1680IX-24-2G supports up to 128 SAS or SATA devices (with expander) for enhanced flexibility and speed.
- RAID SupportThe Areca ARC-1680IX-24-2G supports multi-level RAID configuration including RAID level 0, 1, 10(1E), 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk or JBOD for better performance, enhanced data security and flexible capacity upgrades.
- 2GB MemoryThe Areca ARC-1680IX-24-2G features one DDR-2-533 slot with default 2GB cache that can be upgraded to up to 4GB for enhanced performance and maximum data integrity.
- On-Board I/O ProcessorThe Areca ARC-1680IX-24-2G features an Intel Dual Core 1200 MHz IOP348 I/O processor for RAID core and SAS microcode.