Areca ARC-1883IX-24 24-Port 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA PCIe 3.0 RAID Controller

Supporting up to 24 SAS / SATA drives with six internal SFF-8643 connectors, the Areca ARC-1883IX-24 24-Port 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA PCIe 3.0 RAID Controller can significantly boost your productivity and storage. This controller installs into an available PCIe 3.0 x8 slot and features 2GB of ECC cache memory to handle demanding workloads with drives configured for RAID 0, 1, 10, 3, 5, 6, 30, 50, 60, Single Disk, or JBOD modes.

Six SFF-8643 to 4 x SATA breakout cables are included to help ease your installation. The external SFF-8644 connector allows you to connect additional devices.

High Performance

This controller includes a 1.2 GHz e RAID-on-Chip (ROC) dual-core processor with 2GB of ECC memory. Up to 8GB DDR3-1866 ECC module may be installed into the 240-pin SO-DIMM slot for increased performance and efficiency.

Expansive Storage

Connect up to 256 drives using SAS expanders.

Security

This device supports controller level hardware encryption and self-encrypting drive management.

Optimized Throughput

DataBolt Bandwidth Optimizer balances faster hosts and slower SAS or SATA devices.

Multi-Platform Compatibility

This controller supports Windows, Linux (open source), FreeBSD (open source), Solaris (open source), macOS, and VMware platforms.