Areca ARC-1330 Series ARC-1330-8X - Storage controller - 8 Channel - SATA 6Gb/s / SAS 12Gb/s - low profile - PCIe 3.0 x8

The ARC-1330 series is a low profile host adapter. It brings the fast available connections to SAS data transfer rates of 12, 6, and 3 Gb/s per lane and SATA data transfer rates of 6 and 3 Gb/s per lane interface storage on any computer, workstation and server with PCI Express 3.0 interface.
The adapters are backwards compatible with existing and future RAID, and expander solutions. It provides maximum bandwidth and I/O connectivity for high-end server-based storage systems with internal storage or when connecting to large-scale storage enclosures.

• PCIe 3.0 x 8 lanes
• Up to 12 Gb/s transfer rates per SAS port
• Support 3.0, 6.0 and 12 Gb/s SAS and SATA link rates
• Connects to SAS and SATA HDDs, tape drives, SSDs
• Supports SSP, SMP, STP and SATA protocols
• Supports the SATA Protocol defined in the serial ATA, Revision 2.6 specification
• Address up to 128 total end-point devices via SAS expanders
• API library for customer to write monitor utility
• System status indicates through global HDD activity/fault header