Areca ARC-1320-8X SAS 2.0 non-RAID HBA

The ARC-1320 series is a low profile host adapter. It brings the fastest available connections to 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA interface storage on anycomputer, workstation and server with PCI Express 2.0 interface.

Highlights

• PCIe 2.0 x8 lanes (x8, x4, and x1 lane widths)
• Up to 6Gb/s transfer rates per SAS port
• Support 1.5, 3.0 and 6 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
• Low profile form factor

Hardware Specification

• PCIe 2.0 x8 lanes (x8, x4, and x1 lane widths)
• Up to 6Gb/s transfer rates per SAS port
• Support 1.5, 3.0 and 6 Gb/s SAS and SATA link rates
• Connects to SAS/SATA HDDs, tape drives, tape autoloaders, solid state drives (SSDs) and removable media (DAS/JBOD)
• Support a maximum 128 SAS/SATA devices using SAS expander
• Available in a low-profile form factor
• Low-profile bracket
• RoHS compliant

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 6Gb/s

• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS-2.0) compliant
• Supports wide port (Any combination of x1, x2 and 4x)
• Supports Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP)
• Supports SAS Management Protocol (SMP)
• Supports Serial ATA Tunneling Protocol (STP)
• Hot-plug capability
• Staggered spin-up control

Serial ATA 6Gb/s (Direct Attach)

• 6Gb/s compliant with speed negotation to 3Gb/s and 1.5 Gb/s
• Support programmable SATA signal voltage levels
• Support staggered spin-up, hot-plug and Native Command Queuing (NCQ)

Easy Management

• Legacy BIOS setup utility
• Supports Command Line interface (CLI)
• API library for customer to write monitor utility
• Enclosure management for internal port via LED header and SES2/SGPIO
• Enclosure managemetn for external port via SAS expander

Operating System

• Windows 7, 2008, Vista, 2003 and XP
• Mac OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x (non bootable)

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